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

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From: David Gibson
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 00:00

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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.

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From: david@brucehall20.anu.edu.au (David Gibson)
Subject: Re: Adding Packages ro a RedHat Installation without re-installing.
Date: 1996/09/27
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