[SGVLUG] no more Mandriva?

[Claude Felizardo]

oops, my mistake.  I was having a name resolver issue.
I noticed that my /etc/resolv.conf was pointing at my router whereas
all of my other machines are hardcoded to use the AT&T nameservers.  I
think that came from the DHCP server.  Strange that some hosts were
being resolved but not mandriva.com or a few others.  Changed it
manually and now I'm downloading updates.

So long term I need to figure out what I'm going to do for a distro if
mandriva truly goes away.

Short term is why my router was only providing partial info.

claude


On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 11:48 PM, Claude Felizardo
<cafelizardo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just my luck.  I finally got some free time to look at upgrading my
> Linux machines at home so I downloaded the latest 2010 spring edition
> of Mandriva last night.  Burned the DVD this morning and installed it
> on my laptop where I'm typing this in now.  But when I tried to look
> for updates, I kept getting errors saying it couldn't get the list of
> mirrors.  The mandriva.com website wasn't responding so I thought I'd
> wait.  A few hours later and still nothing but everything else to be
> working.  It took a while but finally found my answer on slashdot:
>
> http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/09/18/1437248/Developers-Fork-Mandriva-Linux-Creating-Mageia
> http://www.mageia.org/
>
> guess I'm glad I tried it on my laptop in the alternate partition
> first instead of trying to update the fileserver directly...
>
> claude
>