thanks to Dimitris Loannou and Brandon Vanderg, and an un-named person who emailed me directly, i managed to do what i set out to do.
for the benefit of anyone other newbie w/o a cdrom drive, the key bit of info is to point the mirror to the directory containing the Mandrake RPMS, eg ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake/8.2/i586/Mandrake/R PMS/ and set the relative path to hdlist correctly, in this case ../base/hdlist (i think the .cz part of hdlist.cz can be omitted) once again, thank you everyone. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stormjumper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 3:35 PM Subject: [newbie] Qn: Software Manager: replacing the Mandrake CD sources > hello, > > i installed Mandrake 8.2 Download Edition on an old system > using the 3 downloaded cdroms, then subsequently > remove the cd-rom drive. > > is there any way i can configure the Software Manager > to point to sources on the web for packages in the cds? > > right now, i've added a few (valid?) sources, > but they can only give me security upgrades and > bug fixes. > > if i try to install any packages that exist(ed) on the > install cd(s), i'm prompted for the mandrake cds. > > thanks > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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