if you browse the ../i586/Mandrake directory you will see a directory called /base and in there should be a file called hdlist.cz, the relative path is the path to the hdlist file form the RPMS directory, at a command line on your box youb probably know that typing 'cd ..' will take you to the directory above where you are at present typing 'cd ../someotherdirectory' will take you 'up' one directory and then back 'down' into /someotherdirectory.
therefore the realtive path of .../i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist.cz to .../i586/Mandrake/RPMS is ../base/hdlist.cz so your example quoted should read: # urpmi.addmedia ftp ftp://ftp2.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/mandrake/8.1/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/ with ../base/hdlist.cz try that and see if it works, depending on how fat your connection is this will take a while, bascule On Thursday 15 Nov 2001 5:40 pm, you wrote: > Ok I entered this in my console to add a source to urpmi and it failed, > can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong? > > [root@dhcppc3 ndptal85]# urpmi.addmedia ftp > ftp://ftp2.sourceforge.net/pub/mirror > s/mandrake/8.1/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/ with > ftp://ftp2.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/ma > ndrake/8.1/i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist.cz > > It always ends up with this error: > > unlink:
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