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Problem kickstarting Mandriva 10.2

So you’ve read through the Auto Install Documentation and you are on to the “postInstall” part of your auto_inst.cfg and you have script a bit of extra post install fun like say urpmi.addmedia … . But for whatever reason it … Continue reading

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Upgrading Mandriva/Mandrake via URPMI

Here are a quick few lines to upgrade your version of Mandriva to the latest and greatest version all using your handy update tool; URPMI. The following will migrate your 10.0 box to 10.1, but the same should work regardless … Continue reading

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FreeNX on Mandrake 10.1

FreeNX is an open source alternative to NoMachine’s NX Server. This means super speedy remote desktop access over SSH; I was streaming audio, surfing the web, chatting, checking email at home and doing the same via the nxclient on my … Continue reading

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