FYI
When I first got L-M 6.0 home, and installed it...it was to an AST 486 - 66,
with 16 MB Ram. It installed perfectly ie: no conflicts with CPU, but was
extremely S L O W...:(
I have since put L-M on a Cyrix GM 233 Pentium system with 32 MB Ram, same
install...but much faster.
Jaguar
"Ernest N. Wilcox Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Rick,
>
> I had a variety of seemingly unrelated problems when I did the update from
> Mandrake 6.0 to 6.1. Most if not all of them were fixed when I removed the
> kcmclock package, and reinstalled the kdelibs package. I also did some
changes
> to my rpmrc file, to let rpm install the Mandrake packages on my old
486-style
> system. Maybe you should do the kdelibs fix and see if it has anything to
do
> with the update tool (unless you already have)?
>
> If you have a 486-style system, rpm (which is used by both Mandrake Update
and
> Kpackage) will by default refuse to install 586 packages on a 486 machine.
> Axilon was gracious enough to give me the hack for the rpmrc file - BTW
Thanks
> AX! - located on my system at /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc. Edit the file with your
> favorite text editor, and modify the three related lines to match as below:
>
> arch_compat: i486: i386 i586
> arch_compat: osfmach3_i486: i386 osfmach3_i586
> buildarch_compat: i486: i386 i586
>
> I cannot remember what information was in these lines prior to the hack, but
I
> added (I think the i486) stuff to each line.
>
> I also modified my kdelinks for Kpackage and Mandrake Update in my normal
user
> desktop so I could run them as if I was a superuser. I added "kdesu -c "
> (without the quotes) to the front of the command lines in the Execute tab of
the
> properties box for each link. Now Mandrake Update, RPM, and Kpackage all
work as
> intended for me.
>
> Before the rpmrc hack, Mandrake Update would download the RPM's, then tell
me
> that the packages were for a diferent architecture in an error box, and not
> install anything. After hacking rpmrc, I was able to remove the kcmclock
> package, which permitted me to fix kdelibs by installing the package
(Kpackage
> reported that kdelibs was not installed) from the CD, and get all available
> updates installed with Mandrake Update. Since these changes, I have not
found
> anything which will not work on my system. I hope there is something in
here
> which will be of help for you,
>
> Ernie
>
>
> On Wed, 27 Oct 1999,Rick Murphy wrote:
> | Since re-installing Mandrake 6.1 I have a problem using the mandrake
update
> | program. It will call up the updates but after I sign in as root it
will not
> | download and update the files. Is there something I didn't install when
I
> | re-installed mandrake?
> |
> | Rick
> |
> |
> | --
> | "I don't want to swim in a roped off sea," JB
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