jstreed

I'm starting to think now that it may be a header problem. Do you think running a urpmi.update -a before urpmi --update-select would fix it? (By the way, I just installed Fedora 2 yesterday.....and hated it. Nvidia drivers are screwed, no ntfs support without rebuilding the kernel on amd64, and no menu customization. Yahoo. Back to Mandrake). jstreed

I tried it again, and again the intall failed. Everytime I try I get errors stating "bad signatures" and "install failed". I've tried user many different mirrors from the easy urpmi page. I tried using Fedora core 2 for Amd64, but I hate the menu setup, and the fact that it's difficult to change. I much prefer mandrake's ability to let me edit every aspect of the menus. Now I'm stuck....

Alright, I got the cookers done. But is there no way to do this graphically? All I want to update from the cookers is Gnome and Xorg.

I can't get any of those Cooker mirrors to work. I've put them in the /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg file, but when I try to update it says there was an error retreiving the hdlist files.

Are you doing this in a consol after doing crtl-alt-f2 or are you doing this and then starting X again? I'm just worried if I starrX and try again I'm going to fry another install. Thanks again.

ahh, that must be the problem I was having. I'll give that a try tonight and see how it works. Thanks for all your help. jstreed

Sounds good. Is there any way to only get Gnome 2.6 installed (and dependencies of course) through the graphical installer? thanks, jstreed

Alright, so I tried it a different way. I did a clean install of Mandrake with only KDE installed. I then setup the cooker rpm's and picked Gnome 2.6 w/dependencies to install. Like always, some of the packages which downloaded had bad signatures, and I decided to go through with the installation. Install finished and rebooted, the system reboots fine, and the Gnome 2.6 splash screen comes up. The loader freezes on Nautilus. Maybe there's a problem with the rpm mirrors? I've heard of others getting this to work pretty easily. Any other ideas? thanks in advance, jstreed

I got the cookers working, but everytime I install the Gnome 2.6 upgrade my screen locks up right before the login prompt. Is there any step I'm missing? Here's the general steps I took. 1) went to easy urpmi page and got the cooker repositories. 2) setup repositories on console 3) once cooker showed up in mandrake package list, I sorted available installs by "upgrade" 4) I selected gnome 2.6 then clicked ok for the dependencies. Once the downloads and installs were done, the xserver appeared to reboot and go to the login. At this point, I get the blue screen and a watch. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, jstreed [moved from Installing Mandrake by spinynorman]

I got Mandrake 10OE to install on my AMD64 SATA system. I'm using a KT800 based motherboard. Works like a charm. The installer picked up the hard drive with no problems. Make sure whatever motherboard you're going to use has a linux supported chipset. The first motherboard I used was an sis 755, and was definitely not supported. Anything that uses a VIA chipset or Promise SATA controller should work fine. jstreed