[clug] Mandrake urpmi help
Blake Swadling
blake at swadling.com
Thu Jul 15 13:48:21 GMT 2004
On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 22:54, George Bray wrote:
> In setting up a new laptop with Mandrake 10, I followed an instruction
> (for installing VLC) to
>
> urpmi.removemedia -a
>
> This init'd my sources database, even killing entries for my installer
> CD's.
>
> How can I restore Mandrake's knowledge of these CD's?
I actually just blew away my mandrake installation in favour of debian
so i cant verify this but from memory try ...
urpmi.removemedia -a
urpmi.addmedia disk1 removable://mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS with
../base/hdlist1.cz
urpmi.addmedia disk2 removable://mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS2 with
../base/hdlist2.cz
urpmi.addmedia disk3 removable://mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS3 with
../base/hdlist3.cz
>
> TIA,
>
> George
Blake Swadling
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