dnoyeb

Is the so-called 2008 Spring edition the most recent Mandriva version?
How/where do I get the complete images? last time I downloaded a few
years back, there was several versions that were not complete. The "One"
version was one of them, and it was hard to find the complete version with
the stuff like samba and postgres, etc. I think its the 'powerpack'
version.

In any event, where do I find the free download that contains all the good
stuff?


CL

aragorn

From your favorite mirror site. ;-) Find your mirror here...: http://www.mandriva.com/en/download


Mandriva One is intended as a "shortcut" distribution. It's a Live
CD(/DVD?) but with the option of installing the system from that CD/DVD.

If you want a more complete distribution, you'll have to opt for the
Mandriva Free images. They contain everything you need, except for
proprietary software such as certain wireless drivers, the nVidia drivers,
Sun's JRE, Adobe Flash/Shockwave plugins, etc. Those can however all be
obtained at no charge from their respective vendors.


The Mandriva PowerPack is a commercial-only offer, and contains everything
the Mandriva Free distro does, but with the proprietary software added and
preconfigured. So it'll set up your browsers with the Flash plugins, it'll
allow you to install the nVidia or ATi and wireless drivers all at install time, etc.

That depends on what you mean by "good stuff". ;-) Check the mirrors or go
to a software shop and buy the PowerPack.

Or alternatively, buy the PowerPack from Mandriva Online - which I don't
advise, based upon my poor experiences with their sales department - or
join the Mandriva Club with a paid membership, and then you can download
the /.iso/ for the PowerPack yourself.

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*Aragorn*
(registered GNU/Linux user #223157)

unruh

"dnoyeB" <none@none.net> writes:

Yes.


There are many mirrors.


One is a spacial version which fits on one CD and which you can boot from
and try out the operating system from. In 700MB you cannot fit everything.
In 4 GB(a DVD) you cannot fit everything. 2008.1 has about 12GB of programs
( main and contrib) and not published version contains it all.

So where did you find it?


The powerpack is a "for money" version. It contains proprietary programs
which Mandriva had to pay money for, or which they were told they could not
distribute for free.


All the good stuff? Nowhere. 4GB of "good stuff? -- go to the Mandriva site
and find out where the mirrors are. Or pay then for club membership and get
the powerpack. Or go to www.cheapbytes.com and get them to send you a DVD.

jim beard

Minor errata inserted:

Some of these are now included in the free DVD download. See below.

You probably want to start at the free download site
http://mandriva.com/en/download/free
buy may want to start at http://mandriva.com/ and look around a bit first.


The Mandriva Club no longer requires a payment for membership. The
Powerpack ISO is available as a download DVD, but costs money. Start
at http://mandriva.com/ if this is of interest.

Do remember to check the md5sum for anything downloaded/burned to
DVD. Corrupt data does not install well.

Cheers!

jim b.

--
UNIX is not user-unfriendly; it merely
expects users to be computer-friendly.

dnoyeb

I downloaded the free DVD. Is the contrib stuff on a different DVD? I
used bittorrent so I hope the hash is checked!?


Thanks,

CL

jim beard

Even a DVD is not big enough to hold all the stuff available
from Mandriva. Set up your mirrors (Use MCC or go to
http://easyrupmi.zarb.org and follow instructions carefully)
and then go to MCC to install software. By default, it shows
only GUI packages, so in the upper left quadrant use the button
to select all.

Cheers!

jim b.

--
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expects users to be computer-friendly.

unruh

"dnoyeB" <none@none.net> writes:


If you go to the same mirror and go to
official/2008.1/i586/media/contrib/release
there will be all the contrib files. download them or set up urpmi to use
that mirror's contrib.

david w. hodgins

The dvd has two repositories on it ...
/mnt/cdrom/i586/media/main
/mnt/cdrom/i586/media/contrib

The directory names prior to i586 may vary, depending on your setup.
As the dvd can only hold around 4.3 GB, the dvd only has a subset of
what's available. Provided the system has internet access, use mcc,
to add the online respositories, to get the rest.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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dnoyeb

thanks