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Re: Adding Packages ro a RedHat Installation without re-installing.

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From: BrisBiker
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 00:00
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In article <52hpos$a1r@student.anu.edu.au>, David Gibson says...
>
>BrisBiker (gaz@bluesky.net.au) wrote:
>: In article <52doib$v42@the-fly.zip.com.au>, Zebee Johnstone says...
>: >
>: >gaz@bluesky.net.au (BrisBiker) writes:
>: >
>: >>unable to mount any of my other 40-odd RedHat floppies, including ones 
I've 
>: >>previously installed! Mount always says 'wrong fs type or bad superblock 
on 
>: >>/dev/fd0'
>: >
>: >
>: >Can you put them in and use mdir to read them? IN ither words, are
>: >they in msdos format?  (not as silly as it sounds.. the boot disk is)
>
>: No. mdir says 'probable non-DOS disk/cannot initialize A:'. I can't read 
them 
>: on my OS/2 PC either.
>
>        Having a look at the install script it looks like the floppies
>aren't in any filesystem. The install appears to read data direct from
>/dev/fd0. Unfortunately, I don't know Perl, so I can't say exactly what
>custom format they are in. At a guess I'd say a small magic header, then raw
>RPM data.

Browsing the DISK?.IMG files in hex suggests that this is the case.

Which leads me back to the original question: where are the *.rpm files I need 
to post-install packages that I didn't include in the original install? They 
certainly aren't in /var/lib/rpm...

Gary
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From: gaz@bluesky.net.au (BrisBiker)
Subject: Re: Adding Packages ro a RedHat Installation without re-installing.
Date: 1996/09/29
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