From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 16:25:09 -0800 Received: from gateway-1237.mvista.com ([12.44.186.158]:1531 "EHLO hermes.mvista.com") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 16:24:53 -0800 Received: from mvista.com (IDENT:ppopov@zeus.mvista.com [10.0.0.112]) by hermes.mvista.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f1L0Km824721; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 16:20:48 -0800 Message-ID: <3A930AB3.3AEAE5BF@mvista.com> Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 16:24:19 -0800 From: Pete Popov Organization: Monta Vista Software X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17 i586) X-Accept-Language: en, bg MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ralf Baechle CC: David Jez , ppopov@pacbell.net, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: redhat 7.0 References: <3A901B3F.ADADC601@pacbell.net> <20010220074903.A68652@stud.fee.vutbr.cz> <20010220215616.F2086@bacchus.dhis.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips-outgoing 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