[plug] I think I'm cursed...

[William Kenworthy]

On a personnel note, I have found that upgrading rpm distros is a recipe
for disaster on desktop systems.  Servers are generally ok, but desktops
are rather complicated and you end up with a lot of crud all over the
disk with many things broken, or odd things happening.  Format the OS
partitions and start again or use something like debian or gentoo which
does a better job of upgrading.

Your problem may have something to do with dns, hostname and network
settings - seems like one symptom at least points to this.  Sounds like
a dns lookup or authorisation problem thats timing out.  Can get very
complicated.

BillK

On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 01:25, Jim Householder wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I successfully acquired the 3 isos for MDK 10.1, and updated my 10.0 system with urpmi --auto-select.  I suspect there is a 4th iso, since there were only about 540 packages (1.3GB) compared with 700+ and 1.9GB from Pacific.net.
> 
> The first thing I noticed when rebooting was that the count-down timer in the lilo menu (a nice blue screen) was rubbish - like the numbers were overwritten but like that from the start.  It worked fine otherwise.
>