On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 02:29:37PM +0300, MyRedHatLinux wrote: > Hello everybody! > > I am a newcomer to Red Hat Linux (not to Linux, however). This is a fine > distribution, the best that I have used so far, I have decided to stay > with it from now on. > > I have a problem: I have installed the OS on my laptop from a hard disk > drive partition using a boot floppy disk (since I could not use my > PCMCIA/SCSI-driven CD-RW drive). Everything went fine at installation > time, however, afterwards I cannot install any new packages neither from > the hard disk drive partition (where the iso images were stored) nor > from the CD-RW drive (it now gets recognized and works flawlessly). > > I suspect that I have to create some link or modify some option > somewhere in the configuration files, but I do not know which one or > where. > > Does anybody know how to resolve this issue? > > TIA, > -- Are you saying the you can't mount ther cdrom with a command such as: mount /mnt/cdrom Then cd /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS and finally execute: rpm -Uvh goo-2.3.rpm goo is just a made-up name. -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University 715 Stadium Dr. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
