On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 07:52:01PM +0200, Warly wrote: > >> i can't install contrib packages when installing Cooker-i586 20020410 12:07 > >> via nfs 'cause links doesn't work: > >> |ls -la /tmp/image/Mandrake/RPMS2 > >> |lrwxrwxrwx stefanh stefanh 22 Tue Apr 9 13:19 >/tmp/image/Mandrake/RPMS2 -> ../../../contrib/i586/ > >> |ls -la /tmp/image/Mandrake/RPMS2/ > >> |can't stat file /tmp/image/Mandrake/RPMS2/ > >> I mirror cooker from ftp.sunet.se. How do other solve this problem? > > Am I really the only one who ran into this problem? No one else installing > > Mandrake via nfs? We've a lot of computers with no cdrom drive and it's very > > annoying to insert a cdrom drive only for installing. > hum, ignore my previous mail, it will not work even if nfs exported, because > the install mount /tmp/image/ and as a consequence has no access to contrib > tree.
That's the point. > You should have contrib in Mandrake/RPMS2 to have it working. That only would be a workaround. Whouldn't it be better to fix it in the network.img? Cookers primary mirror also has contrib as a link in the directory tree. |ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrake/Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/ |ncftp ...l/cooker/i586/Mandrake > ls -la |drwxr-xr-x 6 7382 usit 84 Mar 26 11:06 . |drwxr-xr-x 9 7382 usit 4096 Apr 4 17:15 .. |drwxr-xr-x 2 7382 usit 106496 Apr 16 02:59 RPMS |lrwxrwxrwx 1 7382 usit 4 Feb 12 00:32 RPMS.cooker -> RPMS |lrwxrwxrwx 1 7382 usit 22 Feb 12 00:35 RPMS2 -> ../../../contrib/i586/ -- Und Tsch�ss. Stefan ### Kilroy was here ### 4898 10:40am up 3 days
