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In <52n87c$br2@inferno.mpx.com.au>, gaz@bluesky.net.au (BrisBiker) writes:
>In article <52kucv$gee@inferno.mpx.com.au>, BrisBiker says...

>>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...

>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.

I've found "rpm -i <packagesource>" to be efficacious.
Package source may be
/mnt/cdrom/...........rpm
or an ftp URL or an nfs file.

Cheers


John Summerfield
Warped & Connected
Perth, Western Australia
OS2 support @ http://www.iinet.net.au/~summer
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