On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 09:27:43 -0700 dfox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Somebody scribbled about [expert] cooker installation > >I decided I was going to get myself into some deep water and install > >cooker. How should I go about doing this? At this very moment I am > >mirroring a local copy of this: > >ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrake/Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586 > > Been there, done that :) > > If you are using fmirror or another tool (I used fmirror) it is pretty > easy to do a upgrade install with the hd image. Go to the images subdir > of your local copy and dd that file to a floppy. i was using urpmi to > auto update but i had part 9.0 part something else (system rebuild from > about 1 month ago) and found it worked much better to just upgrade that > way. you could also do an 'install' but you need to be careful not to > overwrite your medium (probably would have to move it to a partition that > mandrake won't touch). Once you install/upgrade you could probably begin > to resync with periodic urpmi. >
Thank you, I will use the hd.img file. But do i need to resync the entire cooker dir? (contrib, i586, SRC, PPC) or is the i586 dir enough? And can I set a cron job to automatically resync my local mirror, then run a urpmi.update -a and an urpmi --auto-select? Thanks, John Drouhard -- Sun Jun 22 12:56:32 UTC 2003 ----------------------------------------------------------------- They told me to install Windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux. Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001
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