Help on Mandrake 8.1 please!I had no trouble with 6.4 to 8.0 Mandrake, but what am I doing wrong
I had no trouble with 6.4 to 8.0 Mandrake, but what am I doing wrong with 8.1. Went to Konqueror as usual, pressed Mnt and CDRom - nothing happened. I've now tried typing in MOUNT /Dev/cdrom/ /mnt/cdrom - then - cd /mnt/cdrom - and can then get a view of the RPM's in Konqueror, but, afterwards I have to umount - there must be an easier way to get to the RPM's, but what?
Thanks
Terry
On Wednesday 23 January 2002 6:55 pm, terryfilby wrote:
I had no trouble with 6.4 to 8.0 Mandrake, but what am I doing wrong with 8.1. Went to Konqueror as usual, pressed Mnt and CDRom - nothing happened. I've now tried typing in MOUNT /Dev/cdrom/ /mnt/cdrom - then - cd /mnt/cdrom - and can then get a view of the RPM's in Konqueror, but, afterwards I have to umount - there must be an easier way to get to the RPM's, but what?
Su to root and run rpmdrake the Mandrake Software Manager, you can manage all your rpm's from there after you define the sources as your install cds, you can also specify an FTP site for your source (bit like the Debian apt but not as full featured).
Su to root and run rpmdrake the Mandrake Software Manager, you can manage all your rpm's from there after you define the sources as your install cds, you can also specify an FTP site for your source (bit like the Debian apt but not as full featured).
It is also worth getting the updates CD for 8.1 from linuxemporium http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk and mounting it as a source of updates - it will save a lot of download time. (There is also a separate one for 8.0) Then go to one of the update ftp sites to add any newer updates to the lists held by rpmdrake. Not much help to you now, I know, but from the mandrake usenet groups, there are a lot of people finding problems after doing an update from mdk8.0 to 8.1 - I have stayed with 8.0 because of this. Data backup and a full 8.1install seems to work for many people though, but I don't have the time at present. If it ain't broke etc.. Unfortunately as well as improving some things, Mandrake seem to be very good at breaking things between releases. HTH Syd
-----Original Message----- From: main-admin@lists.alug.org.uk [mailto:main-admin@lists.alug.org.uk]On Behalf Of Syd Hancock Sent: 24 January 2002 09:53 To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: Re: [Alug] Help on Mandrake 8.1 please!I had no trouble with 6.4 to 8.0 Mandrake, but what am I doing wrong
Su to root and run rpmdrake the Mandrake Software Manager, you can manage all your rpm's from there after you define the sources as your install cds, you can also specify an FTP site for your source (bit like the Debian apt but not as full featured).
It is also worth getting the updates CD for 8.1 from linuxemporium http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk and mounting it as a source of updates - it will save a lot of download time. (There is also a separate one for 8.0) Then go to one of the update ftp sites to add any newer updates to the lists held by rpmdrake.
Not much help to you now, I know, but from the mandrake usenet groups, there are a lot of people finding problems after doing an update from mdk8.0 to 8.1 - I have stayed with 8.0 because of this. Data backup and a full 8.1install seems to work for many people though, but I don't have the time at present. If it ain't broke etc.. Unfortunately as well as improving some things, Mandrake seem to be very good at breaking things between releases.
Good advice from Syd it does save on downlaod time but will always be out of date so it's well worth adding the ftp update site to the defined sources. Cheers, BJ
it does save on downlaod time but will always be out of date so it's well worth adding the ftp update site to the defined sources.
Also gleaned from usenet, apparently not all mirrors are equal. Allegedly some sites may be weeks ahead of others. No idea if this is true but as advised on alt.os.linux.mandrake I have chosen ftp.sunet.se for updates. Syd
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