From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 05:02:33 -0800 Received: from mta6.snfc21.pbi.net ([206.13.28.240]:6366 "EHLO mta6.snfc21.pbi.net") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 05:02:05 -0800 Received: from pacbell.net ([63.194.214.47]) by mta6.snfc21.pbi.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.01.05.12.18.p9) with ESMTP id <0G9T00C5OW6ABZ@mta6.snfc21.pbi.net>; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 05:01:23 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 05:01:07 -0800 From: ppopov@pacbell.net Subject: Re: redhat 7.0 To: Carsten Langgaard Cc: Pete Popov , Ralf Baechle , David Jez , linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Message-id: <3AA63113.45430090@pacbell.net> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-5.0 i686) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: bg, en References: <3A901B3F.ADADC601@pacbell.net> <20010220074903.A68652@stud.fee.vutbr.cz> <20010220215616.F2086@bacchus.dhis.org> <3A930AB3.3AEAE5BF@mvista.com> <3AA5FA06.D9D5277@mips.com> Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips-outgoing Carsten Langgaard wrote: > > Hi Pete > > Did you managed to get through the installation of the RedHat 7.0 packages ? > I would like to do something similar. I haven't had time to try again. I tried the debian 2_2 tar ball, went through the partitioning and dvhtool exersize and managed to setup all of that. If I try RedHat 7.0 again and manage to install it before someone else does, I'll send instructions. Pete > 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