Hi Mandriva folk.

I have Pentium 4 3ghtz 1meg ram
I have just done a new full install of mandriva 2008.1

Using Firefox, I went to Easy Urpmi with the new profile for
2008.1.

I clicked on Add Official Medias.

Response: download box. I chose Open with Add urpmi media.

Typed root pass word.

Pop up box: you are about to add new packages media. I
responded Yes.

New pop up box:
Saying: There was a problem adding media:
Could not find a mirror from mirror list $MIRRORLIST.

I have tried using the old profile version
and pasting the command line.
I get such messages as:
Problem reading synthesis file of medium main or contrib if
that is what I asked for.

Greetings fellow penguins!

I am having problems getting my printer to work. Same printer worked
fine in mdk2008, however I am having problems in 2008 Spring ONE hd
install with all updates. I go through the setup process in MCC the
printer is _not_ detected. So I point it to /dev/lp0 which worked fine
in 2008. Cups gives me (Default Printer) "Unable to open device file
"/dev/lp0": Permission denied"

=======================================================
$ ls -l /dev/lp0
crw------- 1 root root 6, 0 2008-05-11 23:57 /dev/lp0

=======================================================
cupsd.conf

LogLevel info
SystemGroup lpadmin root
Group sys
User lp
# Only listen for connections from the local machine.
Listen localhost:631
Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock
# Disable printer sharing and shared printers...

On Sat, 10 May 2008 18:46:36 GMT, stef wrote:

Me too, I have a separate partition for third party apps like ff and
thunderbird. I create a link in /usr/local/bin.
My PATH is modifed to search /usr/local/bin before /usr/bin

$ type firefox
firefox is /usr/local/bin/firefox

$ ls -al /usr/local/bin/firefox
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 2008-04-10 08:45
/usr/local/bin/firefox -> /local/opt/firefox-3.0b5/firefox

stef wrote:

...

Hello.
I am pretty sure that my /etc/rc.local does not run at boot.
I have been using Mandr* since 8.x but I am no expert; If I remember
correctly this is my first message to this board. Sorry for the errors,
if any. I try to explain my inquiry at my best in the followings. At the
moment I am stuck.

I discovered the problem when I tried to start at boot:
/usr/local/bin/noip2 (this command works from root command line). So I
added the above line to /etc/rc.d/rc.local. It does not start at boot. I
added other easy testing lines (/bin/touch/home/myuser/test1.txt). They
don't run at boot.

So I opened a root bash and typed: # /etc/rc.d/rc.local.
To my surprise, it runs and it starts noip2, and it runs all the test
commands I added.
The same for: # /etc/rc.local

Then I started my inquiry.
I checked etc/rc.d/rc.local. It seems to contain no control characters.
End of lines are UNIX stile. Checked permission, executable, OK. First
line is “#!/bin/sh” (well, it runs from command line, right?).

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Is the so-called 2008 Spring edition the most recent Mandriva version?
How/where do I get the complete images? last time I downloaded a few
years back, there was several versions that were not complete. The "One"
version was one of them, and it was hard to find the complete version with
the stuff like samba and postgres, etc. I think its the 'powerpack'
version.

In any event, where do I find the free download that contains all the good
stuff?

CL