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

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From: BrisBiker
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 00:00
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In article <51ajal$egt@student.anu.edu.au>, David Gibson says...
>
>Phil Howlett (howlett@rta.nsw.gov.au) wrote:
>: Hi,
>
>: The answer to this question is probably right under my nose.. but..
>
>: I've installed RedHat 3.0.3 using just the Base system only via floppy
>: disks.

Yes, I'm the same (or nearly so).

>: My problem is, that if I now want to install the Networking disk, (or any
>: other disk set for that matter), how do I install them? I've searched for
>: the installation script, but I couldn't find it.

The perl scripts are on RAM disk 2. Whether this will be of any assistance, 
I've yet to decide.

>        Yes. Much better in fact than Slackware's in my opinion. The install
>disks should contain a whole lot of files with a .rpm extension. This stands
>for "Redhat package manager". You install them with the command line utility
>rpm or using a front end such as glint which comes with the distribution -
>you may not have installed this though.
>        Look at the rpm(8) man page.

Yes, done that. The rpm utility is a vast improvement on a simple script IMHO, 
but I now have a different problem.

The boot foppy is MS-DOS FAT format, the RAMdisks 1 and 2 are EXT2, but I'm 
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'

Any suggestions?
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From: gaz@bluesky.net.au (BrisBiker)
Subject: Re: Adding Packages ro a RedHat Installation without re-installing.
Date: 1996/09/26
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