Re: [newbie] Restoring Mandrake CDs as urpmi sources

2003-09-08 Thread HaywireMac
On Sun, 07 Sep 2003 21:48:03 +0100 Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Find it yet? Or, I could have a look myself if you could tell me what the thread was called? yup, found it, but now I remember Tom was advising it's better to just do a format and restore from backup. I'm not too sure about

Re: [newbie] Restoring Mandrake CDs as urpmi sources

2003-09-08 Thread HaywireMac
On Sun, 07 Sep 2003 21:48:03 +0100 Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I don't remember actually asking it to do this...could it be the default? When I did the install, I knew nothing about linux, so I wouldn't have known it was wrong anyway! Just a though (for both our situations), it would

Re: [newbie] Restoring Mandrake CDs as urpmi sources

2003-09-08 Thread Margot
HaywireMac wrote: On Sun, 07 Sep 2003 21:48:03 +0100 Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Find it yet? Or, I could have a look myself if you could tell me what the thread was called? yup, found it, but now I remember Tom was advising it's better to just do a format and restore from backup. I'm

Re: [newbie] Restoring Mandrake CDs as urpmi sources

2003-09-08 Thread Margot
HaywireMac wrote: On Sun, 07 Sep 2003 21:48:03 +0100 Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I don't remember actually asking it to do this...could it be the default? When I did the install, I knew nothing about linux, so I wouldn't have known it was wrong anyway! Just a though (for both our

Re: [newbie] Restoring Mandrake CDs as urpmi sources

2003-09-07 Thread Margot
HaywireMac wrote: On Sat, 06 Sep 2003 19:26:53 +0100 Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: [EMAIL PROTECTED] margot]$ df FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 49G 2.2G 44G 5% / /dev/hda6 8.1G 406M 7.7G 5% /home [EMAIL PROTECTED] margot]$

Re: [newbie] Restoring Mandrake CDs as urpmi sources

2003-09-07 Thread Eric Huff
FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 49G 2.2G 44G 5% / /dev/hda6 8.1G 406M 7.7G 5% /home [EMAIL PROTECTED] margot]$ oh, man, you did like I did and gave waaay too much space to /. I don't remember actually asking it to

[newbie] Restoring Mandrake CDs as urpmi sources

2003-09-06 Thread Margot
I used Easy Urpmi to add my sources and, following their instructions, did urpmi.removemedia -a first. This wiped out my mandrake CDs as sources. In case I ever need them, how do I put them back? Margot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Restoring Mandrake CDs as urpmi sources

2003-09-06 Thread HaywireMac
On Sat, 06 Sep 2003 17:58:22 +0100 Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: In case I ever need them, how do I put them back? If you have the HD space, copy them to /usr/src/mdk1, mdk2, mdk3, then in MCC add each one like so: URL: file://usr/src/mdk1/Mandrake/RPMS Relative Path:

Re: [newbie] Restoring Mandrake CDs as urpmi sources

2003-09-06 Thread Margot
HaywireMac wrote: On Sat, 06 Sep 2003 17:58:22 +0100 Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: In case I ever need them, how do I put them back? If you have the HD space, copy them to /usr/src/mdk1, mdk2, mdk3, then in MCC add each one like so: URL: file://usr/src/mdk1/Mandrake/RPMS Relative Path:

Re: [newbie] Restoring Mandrake CDs as urpmi sources

2003-09-06 Thread HaywireMac
On Sat, 06 Sep 2003 18:30:37 +0100 Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: How can I tell if I have the HD space? On the old M$ PC I could click on MY Computer, select C, right click on Properties and get a pretty little pie chart showing how much space I had left. I assume there is an equivalent

Re: [newbie] Restoring Mandrake CDs as urpmi sources

2003-09-06 Thread Eric Huff
How can I tell if I have the HD space? df at the cli -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Join the content organization discussion: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/NewIndex Join the General Wiki Development discussion:

Re: [newbie] Restoring Mandrake CDs as urpmi sources

2003-09-06 Thread Eric Huff
In case I ever need them, how do I put them back? Well, if you have broadband, you can set up main with http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php I bet someone who still uses removable media on here could copy and paste their URL and Relative Paths into an e-mail as easy as I could, though

Re: [newbie] Restoring Mandrake CDs as urpmi sources

2003-09-06 Thread Margot
Eric Huff wrote: How can I tell if I have the HD space? df at the cli OK, now I'm confused! This is what I got: [EMAIL PROTECTED] margot]$ df FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 49G 2.2G 44G 5% / /dev/hda6 8.1G 406M 7.7G 5% /home

Re: [newbie] Restoring Mandrake CDs as urpmi sources

2003-09-06 Thread Margot
Eric Huff wrote: In case I ever need them, how do I put them back? Well, if you have broadband, you can set up main with http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php I've already done this - although I don't have broadband so it took a long time. Are you saying that everything that is on the CDs

Re: [newbie] Restoring Mandrake CDs as urpmi sources

2003-09-06 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 6:40 pm, HaywireMac wrote: On Sat, 06 Sep 2003 18:30:37 +0100 Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: How can I tell if I have the HD space? On the old M$ PC I could click on MY Computer, select C, right click on Properties and get a pretty little pie chart showing how

Re: [newbie] Restoring Mandrake CDs as urpmi sources

2003-09-06 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 7:26 pm, Margot wrote: Eric Huff wrote: How can I tell if I have the HD space? df at the cli OK, now I'm confused! This is what I got: [EMAIL PROTECTED] margot]$ df FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 49G 2.2G 44G

Re: [newbie] Restoring Mandrake CDs as urpmi sources

2003-09-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday September 6 2003 01:26 pm, Margot wrote: OK, now I'm confused! This is what I got: [EMAIL PROTECTED] margot]$ df FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 49G 2.2G 44G 5% / /dev/hda6 8.1G 406M 7.7G 5% /home [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Restoring Mandrake CDs as urpmi sources

2003-09-06 Thread Eric Huff
OK, now I'm confused! This is what I got: [EMAIL PROTECTED] margot]$ df FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 49G 2.2G 44G 5% / /dev/hda6 8.1G 406M 7.7G 5% /home [EMAIL PROTECTED] margot]$ My HD is supposed to be 60G, but 49G

Re: [newbie] Restoring Mandrake CDs as urpmi sources

2003-09-06 Thread Eric Huff
Well, if you have broadband, you can set up main with http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php I've already done this - although I don't have broadband so it took a long time. Are you saying that everything that is on the CDs is also on main, so I therefore don't need to restore the

Re: [newbie] Restoring Mandrake CDs as urpmi sources

2003-09-06 Thread Margot
Eric Huff wrote: OK, now I'm confused! This is what I got: [EMAIL PROTECTED] margot]$ df FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 49G 2.2G 44G 5% / /dev/hda6 8.1G 406M 7.7G 5% /home [EMAIL PROTECTED] margot]$ My HD is supposed to be 60G,

Re: [newbie] Restoring Mandrake CDs as urpmi sources

2003-09-06 Thread HaywireMac
On Sat, 06 Sep 2003 19:26:53 +0100 Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: [EMAIL PROTECTED] margot]$ df FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 49G 2.2G 44G 5% / /dev/hda6 8.1G 406M 7.7G 5% /home [EMAIL PROTECTED] margot]$ oh, man, you

Re: [newbie] Restoring Mandrake CDs as urpmi sources

2003-09-06 Thread ed tharp
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 15:00, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 7:26 pm, Margot wrote: Eric Huff wrote: How can I tell if I have the HD space? df at the cli OK, now I'm confused! This is what I got: [EMAIL PROTECTED] margot]$ df FilesystemSize Used Avail

Re: [newbie] Restoring Mandrake CDs as urpmi sources

2003-09-06 Thread Chris
On Saturday 06 September 2003 11:58 am, Margot wrote: I used Easy Urpmi to add my sources and, following their instructions, did urpmi.removemedia -a first. This wiped out my mandrake CDs as sources. In case I ever need them, how do I put them back? Margot Margot, don't know if anyone has