On Saturday 21 October 2006 17:59, ET wrote: > I gotta agree, but I might offer the boot.iso for whatever arch. saves > downloading a whole slew of files you will never use. have you tried > that yet? about a 13 meg download, starts the installer, then ftp > install from the mirrors of your choice, (just no PLF until after > install) only downloading what you want to install.
Yep, I have and it works a charm providing you've got flatrate at hand cause pointing it to the DVD in another drive/PC was a nono, as was trying to add it as repo with "urpmi.addmedia --distrib". I even went as far as to let my 2006 x86_64 server update (overnight) via the net but there were too many choices there that threatened to keep me awake all night. Broke the update off with CTRL C after an hour or 2 ....actually got the box to reboot nicely so as to dload the CD's after I noticed that the DVD was no joy the next day. With the CD's the update worked a charm....no problems whatsoever except that my "kylix" install was borked and wouldn't install in a 64bit environment either. No big deal hadn't used it for more than a year now, prolly didn't work before either on that box. I like python heaps more anyway, if only I could get to like "boa constructor" as "blackadder"seems to have gone under. Getting OT here. :-) -- Good luck, HarM ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
