Re: Unpacking Alpha RPMs on an Intel Box

[scorpio dodds net]

	I presume you're planning to have the NFS partition mounted as the
root of the UDB's filesystem?

	It should be possible, with a little manual fanagling, to get a
vanilla RH install onto an NFS mounted partition.  This is difficult to
describe, the more so 'cuz I'm not sure exactly what's involved and would
have to play with it to be sure.  My best guess, though, would be to go
through all the steps up to, but _not_ including, the step where it mounts
the partition to install to.  At that step, switch over to the console
(VT2? 3? 5? I can't remember...), mount the NFS partition at the place
where the setup program's going to install to, then continue with the
installation from the _next_ step.  I've done similar things, but not
exactly that; don't know if or how well it will work.

	If you just want to install packages, use "rpm
--root /path/to/udb-nfs-home -i packagename.rpm".  Before you start
installing them, you'll likely have to do "rpm --rebuilddb --root
/path/to/udb-nfs-home" to get all the databases & such set up right.

The latter is more likely to work, but is slower and more tedious.

Good luck.
- Bob

On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Secret Asian Man wrote:

> I'm trying to set up my UDB as an X-Terminal. I got as far as getting the
> UDB to grab the kernel off of bootp/tftp and booting, and even the initial
> NFS mounting of the root partition...
> 
> But I'm not quite sure what RPMs I need to install, and how I need to do
> it. I tried just installing the "base" packages (from
> RedHat/base/comps...) and I had to use --ignorearch and --noscripts to get
> them to install on my Intel box (NFS server)...
> 
> I've gaged so far that you can't do a vanilla RedHat install onto a
> remotely mounted root partition via NFS. Fine. But how do I do it then?
> When I use --noscripts I think the RPMs aren't being set up correctly,
> because INIT freaks out due to it's inability to find libraries.
> 
> Any Suggestions?
> 
> Thanks in Advance,
> 
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