Hi Pete Did you managed to get through the installation of the RedHat 7.0 packages ? I would like to do something similar. /Carsten Pete Popov wrote: > Ralf Baechle wrote: > > > > On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 07:49:04AM +0100, David Jez wrote: > > > > > > Has anyone tried installing 7.0 that's on oss.sgi.com? The problem I'm > > > > running into is that after I netboot and mount simple-0.2b as the root > > > > fs, and install the rpm-4.0 tarball, rpm doesn't work with the > > > > libraries, or lack of, of that root fs. It looks like I need an fs with > > > > a working rpm-4.0, so that I can mount my second disk somewhere and > > > > install the 7.0 packages. Any suggestions? > > > Yes, > > > If you download rpm-3.0 (I'm not sure, try get newer version) you'll should > > > be able to work with rpm 4 packages. > > > > Oss has a tarball with statically linked rpm 4 binaries. Use that to > > convert your rpm database and then install the rpm 4 rpm package for real. > > I tried that; "rpm --rebuilddb" failed because it couldn't find some > library. I'll try again. > > Pete -- _ _ ____ ___ Carsten Langgaard Mailto:carstenl@mips.com |\ /|||___)(___ MIPS Denmark Direct: +45 4486 5527 | \/ ||| ____) Lautrupvang 4B Switch: +45 4486 5555 TECHNOLOGIES 2750 Ballerup Fax...: +45 4486 5556 Denmark http://www.mips.com
