On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 10:53:22PM +0200, Seth Mos wrote: > > I am having trouble getting the mipsel packages installed using the > installer provided for 7.1. > > > I have hooked up a second disk to my i386 workstatition that will house > the filesystem for my mipsel box. Once everything is installed I will put > this disk back in my Qube2 for testing. In the worst case scenario I will > need to boot with the 2.0 kernel that came with the cube. > > I have the original disk for the Qube2 so it isn't a big problem if it > takes 50 attempts. I have a lot of patience ;-) > > Am I correct to assume that I need to use the install.i386.hd on my > workstation to install the mipsel packages on the second harddrive (hdd in > my case) No. It should be install.mipsel.nfs. install.mipsel.hd is for the native mipsel machine install. > > Traceback (innermost, last): > File "./findrpm", line 5, in ? > import rpm > ImportError: No module named rpm > > Does this ring any bells? You need to install the rpm-python rpm. > The mipsel packages are located in the RPMS directory which is in the same > directory as the installer and I edited the Makefile and changed ROOT and > REDHAT-ROOT Sure. > > I wonder if anyone can provide a basic root tarbal which I can use to set > up the basics after which i can start adding stuff. > install.mipsel.nfs is used to create a NFS root tree for mipsel. If you tar it up, you get what you are asking for. H.J.
