Re: [Sheflug] Mandrake updates

[Neil R Porter <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 08:27, Craig Andrews wrote:
> On Monday 30 September 2002 8:03 pm, Peter Collier wrote:
> > error while getting file x. Some files download partially before losing my
> > 2 hr isp connection. When I restart the process, it tries to install the
> > partially downloaded files, sometimes saying that the upgrade was
> > successfull and sometimes not.
> 
> The problems with 8.2 update at the moment stem largely from the fact that 
> most mirrors only have capacity for one version at a time, so currently have 
> Mandrake 9.0 on there. You can, however, change your FTP sources to point at 
> the new directories and click the 'Reload Lists' button in the updater. Then, 
> anything you install will automatically upgrade the relevant bits to Mandrake 
> 9.0. I do this on my works machine, and it is great :)
> 

Oh, I didn't realise this.  However, I recently (Sunday) installed a
fresh 8.2 for a server and did the updates without changing anything. 
Guess I was lucky.

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