DragonMage Posted March 21, 2005 Report Share Posted March 21, 2005 Ok, I don't know where to put this question really but since it's related to installation, I guess this is the best place. Being that broadband is not only quite rare in my country, but downright expensive, I usually update my Mandrake installation by downloading all the updates from the ftp site (including hdlist.cz) before burning it to a CD. Then I make a local_update repository pointing to the CD so that everytime I want to update or install updated packages, urpmi will automatically ask for that CD. This works well for the first few months after the release of a new distro version. However, sooner or later, the size of the updates will balloon up so one cd cannot contain all the updates. So my question is, is there a way to split the files, then regenerate the hdlist.cz for each CDs. So there will be a update_1 and update_2, each with its own hdlist.cz. This way, if I want to update or install update files whose dependancies are split across two cds, urpmi will ask to insert the right update cd in order to continue. Also, since I usually put download some additional packages from plf, mandrake-club.nl, thac, and others, is there a way to make a hdlist.cz for all those packages? Maybe put it into an emptier of the two cds, or separate cd entirely? Thanks in advance. [moved from Installing Mandrake by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted March 21, 2005 Report Share Posted March 21, 2005 copy the rpms to whatever directory, cd to that directory and run genhdlist in there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted March 21, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2005 That simple hunh? Let me try it tomorrow. I don't have my Mandrake 10 repository mirror with me at the moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted March 21, 2005 Report Share Posted March 21, 2005 (edited) Here are some notes I made for myself when I was still on dial-up. UPDATE MANDRAKE: From RPM's burned to a CD Software Management Media Manager Add button Removable device, then add the path or mount point where you will put the CD Install, choose "All packages by: Upgrade availability" Install Edited March 21, 2005 by daniewicz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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