Hi,

trying to install a driver, I lost my urpmi database (it's too long to explain, but this things happen when you're a newbie and act as root).

I'd like to restore my previous situation. I'm not talking about extra repositories (I can find them on easyurpmi, no problem). I'm talking about my 6 cd's set of PowerPack 10.1. I got no idea how to indicate to my system where it should look for them. And...my support credits at Mandriva are expired

Anyone can help me ?

Thank you

Fabio

Use rpmdrake, the instructions are fairly straight forward. Also take a look here under the removable sources section.

Yeah, I need to do the same thing. I used easyurpmi to add external repositories, but before I did that I typed the command urpmi.removemedia -a becasue the easyurpmi suggrested that I should do that first.

So now, the list of sources under RPM does not show the powerpack CDs anymore. I looked at that RPMDRAKE HOWTO but I did not find how to add the CDs back into the list. Any ideas?

THANX!!!

No need to do that, you don't really want that anyway.

d-1

Just run "urpmi rpmdrake" in Konsole....


d-1

urpmi rpmdrake says packages already installed.

So, I dont want to do that because the CDs are not updated like the repositories online?

Hey I found other info that says:

Open up a console, enter "su" then root's password.

Now you enter "urpmi.addmedia [NAME] [PATH] with [RELATIVE PATH TO HDLIST]". Where [NAME] is the name you want the source to have, [PATH] is the path to the directory containing the RPM's in one of the following ways:

file://[path]
removable://[path]

and [RELATIVE PATH TO HDLIST] is the relative path to the hdlist file for the source, which, for a Mandrakelinux CD, will be in ../base/hdlist.cz for normal source and ../base/hdlist2.cz for the contrib source. The hdlist files are not usually stored in the same directories as the RPMs they are for.

I'm just trying to learn HOW to do stuff- Am guessing as to WHY I shouldn't do this...

I thought I was the only idiot that did that. I deleted the default file per easyurpmi instructions also.
It's been a while but I think the urpmi.addmedia as linked by reddazz is what I used to restore my DVD as an install source.

Its not working....

I put CD#1 in, opened Add A Medium, gave it a name, (CDROM1), typed /mnt/cdrom/media/main in the path/mount point, checked relative path to synthesis/hdlist and typed /media_info/synthesis.hdlist.cz.

However, it was unable to open it and it failed. Any suggestions? Thanx again!

Checking my history it appears I used:
urpmi.addmedia --distrib removable://mnt/cdrom

wow that was weird...

OK I typed urpmi.addmedia --distrib removable://mnt/cdrom and it added a list of powerpack cds, but they are #s 11,21,31,32,33,34,35,41,51,61,71,and 72.

I only had discs #1-4...

???????????

I only have one LE 2005 DVD but it is listed as 6. 1-6.
Maybe that is correct. Did you start with a fresh urpmi.cfg?

hmmmm nope I just tried to add in those lines- maybe I should remove -a and then try again?

I really don't know if it will do it any different but you can always save a backup copy and see what happens. That may just be the way it is.
You could always try adding a program and see if it works okay. If it works, it works...

i'm too tired to mess with it anymore tonight- I realize that it's probably irrelevant to add in the default cds in the repositories, but I was just trying to figure out how to put them back for knowledge's sake. If/when I do get it back the way it was, I'll post it here- I really should be doing some schoolwork anywayz...