On Tuesday 15 January 2002 12:08, you wrote: > > After reading about the christmas cooker snapshot and how enthusiastic > > people > > were about it, i tried it - to no avail. The second stage would not > > load > > > into > > memory. So I mirrored the cooker archive to my harddrive: > > > > rsync -avL --delete ftp.uninett.no::Mandrake-devel/cooker/cooker/ > > /home/lusr/burn/cooker > > > > after booting with the hd.img boot floppy everything runs smoothly - > > until > > > the packages install. Here I am told about 80 times that a package > > (obviously > > a different one each time) could not be installed - 'do you want to > > proceed > > > anyway?'. > > May be totally off mark, but > > - you have to rsync until you get no updates. New files may have come > while you rsync'ing. Else you easily get mismatch between package list > and actual packages > > - cooker install assumes existence of contrib.(which it treats as second > CD). I do not remember if I can tell "I have no contrib." > > -andrej
1. Yes, I have updated again and again until there were no more updates. 2. I have downloaded the contrib packages, they are under /cooker/Mandrake/RPMS2/ - is that correct? Also the offending packages (at least most of them i think) are in the main RPMS folder -- Sascha Noyes OpenPGP public key keyID: 7F9C4D6F ------------ Encrypted mail much preferred
