I had a similar problem on my P133 32mb ram/core laptop. The update function doesn't work too smoothly cause it's short of ram. Using text mode helps a lot tho. 64 mb is starting to get minimum, or stay with mdk 7.1 -it's still very good and stable of course :o) luck, Harm Bathoorn P/S missed you on tthe newbie list, sorry. On Thursday 15 February 2001 00:12, you wrote: > [ No response on the Newbie list, so I'll swim with the sharks > instead ] > > Mandrake 7.2 on a nondescript P133, 32Mb memory. > > I did a "developer" install (which doesn't install everything, > as I later found) and tried to get the live updates with the > GUI. It picks a site at random, and I select "Update All", and > over the next day or so it happily updates most things. There > were some warnings about conflicts, so I played it safe and > skipped them (I guess Update processes in alphabetical order, > instead of making a dependency tree). > > However, at the end there were still many modules which cannot > be updated at all, even when I select them explicitly, for > example apache, kde, glibc, etc. The error is "Error accessing > remote file" (or similar; I didn't write it down). > > Anyone seen this? Try as I might, even with different mirrors, > I get the same bland error message... Specifying the exact > error would go a long way to solving this, like, is it my > problem, or a network problem... > > I also found if I tried it long enough, it told me to use > another site, so I guess there's a per-IP download limit? > > [ More info: I quitted Update and restarted, and now it doesn't > find any modules to update. ] > > Other than that, I'm quite impressed with Mandrake, despite > being in the Unix game for over 20 years... > > -- Dave
