On 12 Jun 2000, Pixel wrote:

> > Pixel and others did a good job improving installation. Great. 
> > 
> > bootp/dhcp didn't work, though. Alt-F? said things like "/sbin/ifconfig:
> > not found" or the like, but manual config worked. (I should have written
> > that down...)
> 
> tell more!

I'll write down those messages (if they appear) when I install mdk7.1 for
486 on my father's laptop.

> > : it is broken in 7.1 ...
> 
> no it isn't. I use it everytime
> 
> > 
> > urpmi rpmdrake says "no package names rpmdrake"
> 
> it means urpmi is not configured.

Of course: the urpmi.addmedia step doesn't complete...

> > wget was missing after install... isn't it needed by urpmi ?
> > dependencies say no.
> 
> urpmi doesn't need wget. rpm is able to access ftp and http without any help.
> gurpmi does need wget via grpmi

Even for urpmi.addmedia for a ftp site ?

/usr/sbin/urpmi.addmedia:    system("wget -O $HDLIST $url/$ftp_hdlist");
/usr/sbin/urpmi.addmedia:    $? == 0 or die "wget of $url/$ftp_hdlist
failed (maybe wget is missing?)";

> > /etc/urpmi/urpmi.conf contained strange entries: in the path, the
> 
> here is a working entry:
> 
> ftp_2 ftp://a:a@leia//export/Mandrake/RPMS with ../base/hdlist.cz2

leia.mandrakesoft.com ? not in the dns... :-(

> cu Pixel.

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