[Mageia-discuss] mageia 1 install

Sat Nov 19 07:19:49 CET 2011

i've just upgraded from mdv2010.2 to mageia 1, a few comments:
+my kde styule and colour settings weren't kept but this could have been a kde 
+upgrade issue
+despite choosing a directory on my capacious home disk to download the rpms to 
+before install (i used the mgaonline gui) the install just hung, i used the 
+urpmi method and noticed that even though i specified --download-all 
+/home/somedirectory i still received the message that my / partition didn't 
+have enough space, after messing about removing suggested packages etc. i 
+found that even though i still got the message the rpms were downloaded to the 
+specified directory anyway :)
+
+otherwise fairly painless, still not happy with some kde features compared to 
+3.5 but that's hardly mageia's fault (no knewsticker, web shortcuts to static 
+pages don't work properly)
+
+my one question is:
+how do i add the core 32 bit repository manually? i have the i586 and x86_64 
+repositories mirrored locally on an nfs server but i've read some comments on 
+the web that the usual method of adding sources that i used in mandriva 
+doesn't automatically add the 32 bit sources, is this right? in the past i 
+would specify the root of the x86_64 repository but the gui would still find 
+the adjacent i586 directory and add the 32 bit sources, is this still how it 
+should work?
+
+bascule
+-- 
+"...[Arthur] leapt to his feet like an author hearing the 
+phone ring..." 
+
+- Who says that the character of Arthur isn't autobiographical? 
+