daniewicz Posted September 4, 2004 Report Share Posted September 4, 2004 I recently installed Mandrake 10. Last night I attempted to use Mandrake Update. The size of many of the updates makes the updating process difficult, as I am still on dialup. Is there a better way? I have access to high speed internet at work on a W2K box. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted September 4, 2004 Report Share Posted September 4, 2004 Yes. Navigate to an "updates" folder for version 10 on one of the ftp trees. Download and burn everything in the folder to a cd. Then add that cd to your sources and Mandrake update will use it to automatically find what you have installed and update it. I use this one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted September 4, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 4, 2004 Thanks. I will give this a try when I return to work on Tuesday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VILLA21 Posted September 7, 2004 Report Share Posted September 7, 2004 Yes. Navigate to an "updates" folder for version 10 on one of the ftp trees. Download and burn everything in the folder to a cd. Then add that cd to your sources and Mandrake update will use it to automatically find what you have installed and update it.I use this one <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I"m going to do that cause i also have a slow 56k dial-up at home. So far at work, i"ve downloaded all the rpms from: http://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/linux/mandrake/offi...ates/10.0/RPMS/ Do the list files hdlist.cz and synthesis.hdlist.cz also needed from : http://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/linux/mandrake/offi...ates/10.0/base/ ? Think it"s better to burn them (1.1Gb) on a DVR-RW and update it monthly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VILLA21 Posted September 7, 2004 Report Share Posted September 7, 2004 Got a problem... My downloaded rpms are in a folder "updates_030904". I try to build the hdlist.cz file with: [root@smoothwall /]# genhdlist /home/patsio/updates_030904/ ...and i got the following error: "Directory path to parse should be relative at /usr/bin/genhdlist line 63" What"s that? Any help pls? :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted September 7, 2004 Report Share Posted September 7, 2004 I'm not a programmer, but check out the referenced file at line 63, and see if there is more info! Open it in an editor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted September 8, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 8, 2004 Ixthusdan: I downloaded the updates from the ftp site you linked to and burned them to a CD. After adding the CD within Media Manager, I was able to install the files. Everything appeared to install OK, however, I did see this error on completion: there was a problem during the installation ....retrieving falied: curl failed: exited with 7 or signal 0 If I return to Mandrake Update, it no longer lists any needed updates. So I am assuming that my installation went OK. Is there a way to check? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted September 8, 2004 Report Share Posted September 8, 2004 I'm guessing one of your sources still wanted to go on-line. I think you're ok. (He says from a safe distance!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted September 8, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 8, 2004 Well the system appears to be stable thus far. I will keep a careful eye on things for a few days. I was guessing that I had a firewall problem ( I forgot to disable my firewall when going to Mandrake Update). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VILLA21 Posted September 8, 2004 Report Share Posted September 8, 2004 I'm not a programmer, but check out the referenced file at line 63, and see if there is more info! Open it in an editor. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Here"s line 63: grep { m!^/! } @dir and die "Directory path to parse should be relative"; Im not a programmer too, so further help needed... :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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