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In article <52kucv$gee@inferno.mpx.com.au>, BrisBiker says...
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>In article <52hpos$a1r@student.anu.edu.au>, David Gibson says...
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>>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...

Quoting from the RedHat FAQ:

  3.9.  How do I run the install program again?

  Reboot your machine using the three disks that you made for the
  installation.  You will most likely need to completely reinstall your
  system.

  If you just want to reconfigure networking or install more packages,
  try using the control-panel tools.

For a while I thought 'the control-panel tools' referred to the fullscreen 
panels during installation - but I can't make head nor tail of the perl 
scripts which drive them.

Perhaps it refers to an X admin utility - now there's a fine catch-22 - I need 
X to do partial installs, but I can't do partial installs because I don't have 
X.

There is also the 'lim' and 'rpp-install' utilities referred to in the RedHat 
mailing-list archives. But they're not on my system.

Apologies for following up myself. Unless someone has something to advance 
this thread, it might as well end here. Along with my use of RedHat. Pity, it 
looks very professional.

Gary