On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 22:01, Elton Woo wrote:Especially in the latter days of RH9 since I had a 'demo' up2date account, I got to the point of starting up2date just to get a list of the rpms it wanted, then using WS-FTP Pro to go collect them all from a mirror site, placing them in the up2date spool file. Then you can let up2date continue and it will find them already downloaded and install them. The downloader in up2date is *not* robust and will quit without apology often, throwing away whatever it had gotten up to that point. You need to download with something that can recover from broken connections, and resume from where it was when the connection is restored.
billg wrote:
I did a fresh FC1 install today on a machine that has previously run
Fedora quite happily and glitch free.
8. Happily spinning hourglass appears...and spins for 45 minutes or so. Progress bar does not progress across the graphic. Hard drive is not busy. 9. I kill up2date and relaunch it. Up2date proceeds to start downloading everything again. 10. Sigh....
Now, I run up2date from the commandline, and sometime before I relaunched
it, it produced this error message:
I'm having the same problem. Does anyone know of mirrors that we can configure?
It's also very helpful if you create a spool file for up2date on a disk with some extra room, and set the option to keep the downloaded rpms, instead of just deleting them after each install. Then, if you should have to do a re-install from CD, you can do an up2date without having to re-download 800 MB of updates....
-- Fritz Whittington Force without wisdom falls of its own weight. (Horace, Odes)
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