[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Hi there, > >Chris Wilkinson wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> Hamish McBrearty wrote: >> >>> Just set up your software sources list either from the command line, or >>> from the Software Sources Manager on the Mandrake Control Center. >>> >>> Here's a source to get you started: >>> >ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/8/Mandrake/9.0/contribs/RPMS/synthesis.hdlist2.cz >> >> Didn't work, comes up with 'unable to add medium, will be disabled by >> default', but upon further investigation I tried... >> >> ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/8/Mandrake/9.0/contrib/RPMS/synthesis.hdlist2.cz >> >> without the 's' in 'contribs'. That seems to start downloading >> something, but then sits there like a dumb shit for ages before coming >> up with the previous message... > >Ping works with rpmfind.net so traffic isn't an issue. 'Relative path to >synthesis/hdlist;' is blank, should this contain an entry?
Ah! My bad! Entering that from the command line should work, eg urpmi.addmedia >From the GUI enter everything up to /systhesis.hdlist2.cz Enter that in relative path. > >Kind regards, > >Chris Wilkinson, Middle Earth, New Zealand. > >MICRO$LOTH FREE ZONE! > ------------------------------------------------- Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' School 59 Hewitts Road Christchurch NEW ZEALAND Ph 03 355-6099 Fax 03 355-6027 CELL 021 999770 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------
