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I came across a thread that seems to provide that option: https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=24870

You're welcome!

Do I understand you have 10.1 CDs and want to make them your urpmi sources? If so, # urpmi.addmedia --distrib removable://mnt/cdrom using the path to your CD reader with CD1 in the reader will add all the CD sources. You might want to remove the sources for your older version. You can get the names of these sources with urpmq --list-media and do urpmi.removemedia <name> for each such source or use Software Media Manager. See man urpmi.addmedia etc.

Is there a line in your /etc/lilo.conf that refers to a bitmap, bmp, or splash image? I don't know, as I use Grub, but man lilo.conf shows some info around a bitmap option that you might be able to play with.

You can use the full path to an rpm as the argument to urpmi. If a dependency is in one of your urpmi sources, it will be installed automatically. If any dependencies are not in urpmi sources and need to be downloaded locally, the paths to those rpms can be added to the command in a space-separated list. # urpmi /path/to/package1.rpm /path/to/package2.rpm /path/to/package3.rpm

I am not a networker but I am aware of defaultroute being in this config file: $ cat /etc/ppp/peers/ppp0 noauth noipdefault kdebug 1 nopcomp noccp novj holdoff 4 maxfail 25 persist usepeerdns defaultroute If it is not in your such file, maybe you could try adding it? Sorry for the lack of authority on this one. Someone else must have a better idea.

# urpmq --sources enchant ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrakelinux/official/2005/i586/media/contrib/enchant-1.1.5-1mdk.i586.rpm The dependency-resolving abilities of urpmi require that urpmi "know" of the packages that resolve dependencies. That is, a "source" (containing dependencies and other package information in the hdlist.cz file) must have been added to the urpmi system with urpmi.addmedia on the command line or with the gui frontend, software sources manager. In your situation, with no internet connection to the machine, I can only imagine downloading the whole contrib mirror locally and and putting it on CD or transferring it to this computer or, as I suggested, maybe getting the hdlist.cz onto your machine will enable you to more easily determine what are the needed packages.

Did you try what Yin Yeti said and edit/make ~/.desktop or /etc/sysconfig/desktop with your preferred DESKTOP= inside?

Thanks for the other info but, on this point, I just did startx gnome and startx blackbox from a runlevel 3 user login and, in each case, that desktop started.

You could do startx blackbox for instance. I don't know about the file but man startx might give a clue.

This is on 2005, so there might be differences. [rolf@localhost ~]$ urpmf libenchant.so libenchant1:/usr/lib/libenchant.so.1 libenchant1:/usr/lib/libenchant.so.1.1.5 libenchant1-devel:/usr/lib/libenchant.so Use urpmf <string> to search the urpmi database for a package containing <string>. The more you specify the path to the installed file, the fewer results will be returned by urpmf. If a file description is too specific and urpmf returns nothing, try removing parts of the string a little at a time. I removed the 1 from libenchant.so.1 as libraries get newer version numbers as newer versions of the software are released and this is on a newer Mandriva release than yours. As it turns out, the same library is in 2005. [rolf@localhost ~]$ su Password: [root@localhost rolf]# urpmq --sources libenchant1 ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrakelinux/official/2005/i586/media/contrib/libenchant1-1.1.5-1mdk.i586.rpm The last command shows this package is in contrib. I use root for urpmq --sources as some ftp sources are password protected and urpmq won't show them to the normal user. You could find a 10.1 contrib repository on one of the mirrors and download this package, put it on the usb key, and use rpm or urpmi with the path to this package on the key as one of the arguments to all the packages you need: # urpmi abiword /path/to/key/libenchant1-1.1.5-1mdk.i586.rpm #rpm -Uvh /path/to/abiword.rpm /path/to/libfribidi0.rpm /path/to/libenchant1.rpm It might be possible to add a contrib source to your urpmi database on this machine by downloading only the hdlist.cz and using urpmi.addmedia to create a "pseudo-source" on the key. That way, you could use urpmf and urpmq to find out where the packages are, download them to the key, and install what you need. You could use the configurator at Easyurpmi to find mirrors and see the path to the hdlist.cz. The plf-free and plf-nonfree contain some good packages, also. See man urpmi.addmedia or ask back here if you want to try this.

Hi Kristi. Looks like some good work and more to come!

Another way to start guarddog, as root, which you need to be to configure the firewall, is to call guarddog from a root prompt in a terminal. Open a terminal from System > Terminals or there might be a tv icon in the tray. Type su and press Enter Give the root password and press Enter Type guarddog and press Enter On the Protocol tab, with Internet Zone selected, you will need to enable (check) certain protocols to get your browser and other programs working. Under Network, DNS must be checked. Under Mail, NNTP is needed for newsservers. I enable all the POP and SMTP for email. Under file transfer, HTTP and HTTPS are needed for web browsing. FTP is for downloads. If a protocol you wish to use is not listed, you can add it under the Advanced tab and it will show up under User Defined. Leaving a protocol box blank will show Stealth but Rejected causes the firewall to send a response to the probe, making your box visible, as shown at Shields Up here: http://grc.com/default.htm

Glad it helped.

I think what you will need to look for is the option to install the bootloader to a floppy. What once was know as a bootdisk or bootfloppy put the kernel and initrd.img (initial ram disk image, contains drivers needed to boot the system) on a floppy, so booting the floppy actually loaded the kernel. Anymore, the kernel as shipped is too big to fit on a floppy, so that type of bootfloppy can not be made. If you put the bootloader on a floppy, booting from that will present you with a bootloader menu, where you can choose the normal linux boot, a failsafe mode, windows, etc.

Each installation of Mandriva will need a partition mounted on /. These will need to be separate partitions. The installation only knows about its own /, not any of the others. The mount points are specified in /etc/fstab. When you install your second installation, make sure you make different partitions for it. You can use the same swap partition(s). Either install the bootloader to the partition containing /boot (usually, the / partition) or install it to floppy. That way, you have several options. You can boot the second installation from the floppy You can copy the stanza(s) of the bootloader menu for your second installation from the floppy or /etc/lilo.conf on the second installation hard drive to /etc/lilo.conf of your main installation (and run lilo) You can chainload the second installation bootloader on the second installation / partition with the proper entry in the menu of your main bootloader. Google lilo chainloader or similar to find out the syntax as I can do this in grub but don't know lilo.

2005 LE Official and xmms works for me. I have seen some problems reported with the default command for xmms in the menu or desktop icon being soundwrapper xmms and that did not work. Removing soundwrapper from this command or just using xmms as the command in console to start the program might work. In xmms > Options > Preferences, the output plugin should probably be alsa, as the alsa driver is usually the default. You can check your driver by calling draksound from the root prompt. These things are configurable. In the KDE Control Center (kcontrol), Sound, Sound System, I always set auto-suspend to 1 second and realtime priority might help. Selecting the audio device under Hardware to be your sound driver instead of auto-detect can improve performance and there is full-duplex to try. I read that xmms is not being maintained and beep-media-player is considered its replacement.

Alex: My understanding is we were trying to get gcc-c++ installed, which did not appear to be present in the 10.1 Community sources, which purefan was running. It is true rpm does not know about packages installed from source and will go ahead and install similar packages in parallel, perhaps overwriting conflicting files, I don't know. I did not address those issues, don't know. This is one reason, I think, it is always a good idea to work with software packaged in your package manager's system. There is even checkinstall in contrib/ sources for building rpms from a source package. purefan: It appears you have added a source for 2005, not 10.1 Official, as I suggested. That's fine. It's just that urpmi will want to upgrade all your packages to 2005, anytime there is a call for a package that is newer in 2005 or requires a dependency that has a newer version in 2005: urpmi will always select and install the latest available package. If you were to do urpmi --auto-select, every package on your machine would be upgraded to the 2005 version, a long process over ftp on a dial-up. This manner of upgrade has worked fine for some or there might be some glitches introduced compared to a fresh install. It's impossible to tell. You could stay with this situation, disable the ftp 2005 source in Software Media Manager, enabling it only when you wanted to install from it, remove the source from media manager and add the 10.1 Official source, use urpmi --excludemedia main <packagename> on the commandline whenever you don't want urpmi to look in the 2005 main source to find packages.... See man urpmi, man urpmi.addmedia, man urpmi.removemedia...

The community edition is the free edition. At the EasyUrpmi link I gave, you can configure for 10.1 Official to see some mirrors that have the Official tree. If you follow the directions and add the urpmi source for official main, urpmi might want to update a lot of packages, I don't know, I have always run official. Anyway, you can browse the mirror and download/install only the package(s) you need, such as: ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Li...1-4mdk.i586.rpm

This is from a 10.1 install (Official Power Pack download, installed from isos extracted to hard disk): # urpmq --sources gcc-c++ file://mnt/hd//media/main5/gcc-c++-3.4.1-4mdk.i586.rpm I think that means CD5, which might be why you can't find it in community. Maybe you could find it on the ftp tree for 10.1 on one of the mirrors or maybe you could set up a main source for 10.1 at EasyUrpmi

Hey, I've been (not too far) away!

Considering the version of your installed gcc and the results of bvc's search: gcc-c++-3.4.3-7mdk I would try, as root, on your machine: urpmi gcc-c++ I don't know why urpmf did not work for you. I have not seen that error, before. I always use the hdlist.cz (also used when 'maximum information' is checked in the Software Installation Manager of Software Management) instead of the smaller, synthesis.hdlist.cz file. You can also edit the path in Software Media Manager to point to the hdlist.cz instead of synthesis.hdlist.cz file.

You need to give an argument to grep, what grep is 'grepping' for: rpm -qa | grep gcc to see, in all installed packages, which contain 'gcc'.

It's been a long time since I had this problem and that was with W98. I think you have to run your hardware clock in local time, not UTC. If you right-click on the clock and choose 'Adjust Date and Time', one of the options will be whether the hardware clock is set to local time or UTC.

I've used rsync numerous times and fmirror a few to mirror the cooker or other ftp trees to my hard drive. FYI, once the tree is there, whether by extracting isos, or by mirroring the tree, hd_install proceeds in the same fashion.