Another nice try - and interesting information for those that use ext2/3

My problem is trying to get the already installed machine (using
PCMCIA.IMG to install from a local FTP source) - to recognise the FTP
source machine after the initial install and use rpmdrake.

The segfault happened because the addmedia was wrong from the install,
when I did a urpmi.removemedia and removed the two ftp sources -
rpmdrake didn't segfault anymore.

But now I have problems adding the FTP source back to rpmdrake so i can
install more packages.

As I previously complained, the add new media interface to rpmdrake is
not very intuitive and when the FTP source is wrongly entered or an
error occurs you are dumped back to the "edit sources" dialog - which
means everything has to be retyped again for the next attempt.  This is
not fun.

Cheers,
R.Fox

On Tue, 2001-12-18 at 14:19, guran wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 December 2001 12:39 pm, Robert Fox wrote:
> > Nice guess - but I caught that one and always change it manually with a
> > symlink to the ../contrib directory.
> >
> > I can't get the normal RPM directory loaded!
> 
> OK - How about this one: I have my mirror on an ext3 partition, when I do a 
> hd.img installation it is easier for the floppy to mount that one as an ext2. 
> The end result from this is that, when I boot and try to use mcc and 
> softwaremanager, no /mnt/hd is mounted as diskdrake finds that the ext2 
> partition has a wrong end-point.
> So before I can add any rpm I have to manually add /mnt/hd and edit fstab 
> accordingly, so that CD1 and ... can be found.
> 
> regards
> guran
> -- 
> Mandrake Linux 8.2 Cooker kernel-2.4.16.10mdk-1-1mdk version:2001:12:14:14:49
> 



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