From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 12:56:58 -0800 Received: from u-12-18.karlsruhe.ipdial.viaginterkom.de ([62.180.18.12]:1007 "EHLO dea.waldorf-gmbh.de") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 12:56:49 -0800 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.waldorf-gmbh.de (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f1KKuG504374; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 21:56:16 +0100 Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 21:56:16 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: David Jez Cc: ppopov@pacbell.net, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: redhat 7.0 Message-ID: <20010220215616.F2086@bacchus.dhis.org> References: <3A901B3F.ADADC601@pacbell.net> <20010220074903.A68652@stud.fee.vutbr.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010220074903.A68652@stud.fee.vutbr.cz>; from dave.jez@seznam.cz on Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 07:49:04AM +0100 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips-outgoing 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. Ralf