From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 01:06:52 -0800 Received: from mx.mips.com ([206.31.31.226]:10945 "EHLO mx.mips.com") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 01:06:47 -0800 Received: from newman.mips.com (ns-dmz [206.31.31.225]) by mx.mips.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) with ESMTP id BAA20906; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 01:06:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from copfs01.mips.com (copfs01 [192.168.205.101]) by newman.mips.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) with ESMTP id BAA11045; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 01:06:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from mips.com (copsun17 [192.168.205.27]) by copfs01.mips.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA28493; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 10:06:15 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <3AA5FA06.D9D5277@mips.com> Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 10:06:14 +0100 From: Carsten Langgaard X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.7 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pete Popov CC: Ralf Baechle , 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> <3A930AB3.3AEAE5BF@mvista.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips-outgoing 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