Re: [Evolution] Distribution not supported

[Alec Peden <pezking jaded org>]

if i understand what happened, it should be fixed by editing the
/etc/redhat-release file to say "
Red Hat Linux release 6.2 (Zoot)" then remove the /etc/mandrake-release
file. Good luck


Alec

On 06 Feb 2001 21:31:46 -0600, Jimmie Houchin wrote:
> Hello,
>
> A few days ago I was working on my computer messed up LILO and my boot
> floppy disk. My system had never booted off of the hard drive due to RH
> 6.2 being installed to the hard drive while at /dev/hda and the
> motherboard doesn't want to boot off a drive on IDE0. I hadn't been able
> to moved the drive to /dev/hdc at that time.
>
> I tried to use an old Mandrake 6 cd to boot in order to fix things. It
> installed a minimum of stuff and changed what my system thinks it is to
> Mandrake. I removed most of those rpm's but Helix Updater now won't work
> because "Sorry your distribution type is unsupported.".
>
> I got TomsRtBt, fixed my problem, got LILO fixed and the hard drive on
> /dev/hdc and everything is great. Even just compiled 2.4.1 kernel. But
> how do I get Helix Updater to work so I can update Gnome and Evolution?
> I don't know where it is finding this information or what to set it to.
>
> Thanks for any help and sorry for rambling.
>
> Jimmie Houchin
>
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