Re: [Evolution] Distribution not supported

[Jimmie Houchin <jhouchin texoma net>]

Thanks, that worked.

I had changed that file to read Linux Red Hat 6.2. But that didn't work.

I couldn't remember what it said previously. I also had not removed the
mandrake-release file.

Thanks again.

Jimmie Houchin

Alec Peden wrote:
> 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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