mandrake urpmi setup argh

From: Andy (afelt_at_uwsp.edu)
Date: 03/29/05 

Date: 29 Mar 2005 10:34:05 -0800

Hi Folks,

I'm having problems setting up my urpmi on Mandrake 9.1. I've removed
all the media that formerly was associated with urpmi by running
urpmi.removemedia -a
as suggested at <http://www.urpmi-addmedia.org/index2.php>. Then I
followed the directions at that same web site, using version 9.1, i586,
updates (only). I tried the command generated, but it isn't working,
as shown:

<------begin paste from console------->
# urpmi.addmedia --update updates
http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pub/linux/Mandrakelinux/old/updates/9.1/RPMS
with ../base/hdlist.cz
added medium updates
retrieving description file of "updates"...
...retrieving done
retrieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of "updates"...

http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pub/linux/Mandrakelinux/old/updates/9.1/base/hdlist.cz

        100% of 1293 completed, ETA = --:--:--, speed = 7027
...retrieving done
examining MD5SUM file
examining hdlist file [/var/cache/urpmi/partial/hdlist.updates.cz]
examining synthesis file [/var/cache/urpmi/partial/hdlist.updates.cz]
unable to parse hdlist file of "updates"
examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.updates.cz]
problem reading synthesis file of medium "updates"
unable to update medium "updates"
<--------end paste from console--------->

I've tried lots of different mirror sites, all suggested by that same
web site, and I've tried the compressed index. None of it works. I've
tried over 100 times, so I don't think it's a matter of finding a time
when the server is not busy. What do you think? Any suggestions would
be appreciated.

Thanks,

Andy

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