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Article #57608Re: Adding Packages ro a RedHat Installation without re-installing.
From: John Summerfield
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 00:00
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 00:00
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"Phil Howlett" <howlett@rta.nsw.gov.au> writes: >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. > >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 only way that I know >of installing the Network disks (or adding any other ones in the future), >is to re-install everything from scratch. Any ideas??? > >Slakware used to have a 'setup' script, that allowed you to setup the >system. Is there a RedHat equivalent? rpm -i <wheretogetit> eg rpm -i /mnt/cdrom/RPMS/some.packager.version.rpm rpm --help (two hyphens) for a syntax summary wheretogetit can be an ftp URL such as ftp://redhat.com/pub/updates/i486/some.new.packager.version.rpm and it can be nfs-mounted. > >Thanks in advance. > >Cheers, >Phil Howlett. > Cheers John Summerfield Warped & Connected Perth, Western Australia OS2 support @ http://www.iinet.net.au/~summer
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102983,5eb52df0e592c585 X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: summer@iinet.net.au (John Summerfield) Subject: Re: Adding Packages ro a RedHat Installation without re-installing. Date: 1996/09/13 Message-ID: <51c8iv$ca3@opera.iinet.net.au> X-Deja-AN: 180427912 references: <01bba111$a04ae740$7b15bda3@phil.rta.nsw.gov.au> organization: OS/2 Support reply-to: summer@iinet.net.au (John Summerfield) newsgroups: aus.computers.linux