On Tue, 22 May 2012, Len Lawrence wrote: > Dell XPS m1730, Intel Core Duo 2, x86_64, nvidia graphics. > Mageia 1 running perfectly. > > Have at last got round to installing RC-2. Thought it wise to > experiment with an old laptop as my Magaeia 2 system is now my main > workstation. The installation went very smoothly but the display > would not work - flashing red, green, blue, white, black screens > forever. Fell back on the nv driver and booted into GNOME Classic OK. > No wireless so over to ethernet. OK. > > One minor problem was no backspace to start with. After switching to > gdm that went away. > > The main problem at this stage is no media updates. The DVD appears > in the list as the only update medium and any attempt to add the full > list of sources hits this error: > > "...retrieving failed, curl failed, exited with 9" > > "Unable to access the distribution medium (no media.cfg file found)" > > Using aria2 as downloader gives error 4 and wget error 8. > > /etc/release = Mageia 2 release (Cauldron) for x86_64 > /etc/urpmi contains mediacfg.d => Devel and Official > Devel,,, contains media.cfg
This was probably due to some mirrors not having the Mageia 2 tree yet. This should be fixed now.
