[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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