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Article #57468Re: Adding Packages ro a RedHat Installation without re-installing.
From: BrisBiker
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 00:00
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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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102983,5eb52df0e592c585 X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: gaz@bluesky.net.au (BrisBiker) Subject: Re: Adding Packages ro a RedHat Installation without re-installing. Date: 1996/09/29 Message-ID: <52kucv$gee@inferno.mpx.com.au> X-Deja-AN: 185965207 references: <01bba111$a04ae740$7b15bda3@phil.rta.nsw.gov.au> <51ajal$egt@student.anu.edu.au> <52dfa5$psg@inferno.mpx.com.au> <52doib$v42@the-fly.zip.com.au> <52e9te$4je@inferno.mpx.com.au> <52hpos$a1r@student.anu.edu.au> content-type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII organization: Microplex Pty Ltd mime-version: 1.0 reply-to: gaz@bluesky.net.au newsgroups: aus.computers.linux