Re: [expert] 7.2 Mandrake Update problem

[Balaji Ramani]

This problem can occur if you are running MandrakeUpdate in a directory which 
is NFS mounted and root cannot write to the directory.  To solve it, cd to 
/tmp and run MandrakeUpdate from there.

Balaji

On Tuesday 23 January 2001 10:23, you wrote:
> Has anyone managed to get Mandrake Update to work?  Whenever I try,
> I get "Cannot retrieve the list of packages to update...Try with another
> mirror".  I ftp'ed over to some of the mirrors and they're up.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Darren