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- In message <Pine.SGI.3.91.971006103630.19553A-100000@hebe> you wrote:
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- > > This is the way I did it. I created two partitions and then I let the
- > > installer format them, then I copied the RPMs in a partition setting the
- > > correct directory structure (RedHat/RPMS, RedHat/base) and finally
- > > installed everything from it.
- > Marvellous idea! It'll take hours copying all the rpm files across from
- > RuskOS to linux, but it'll be worth it (I even have my old 210meg hard
- > drive ripe for reformatting). Thanks for the tip :-)
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- Since we are on the subject, you can also read them directly from RISC OS
- mounting the ADFS disc (eg. mount -t adfs /dev/hda4).
-
- A major problem I encountered with all these methods is that I had to rename
- the files to the original looong name which is quite a pain. To avoid this,
- after I had a basic installation running I immediately installed the unzip
- package, so I downloaded the RPMs from another Unix box or from RISC OS
- (using LongFiles) and then zipped them. From ARMLinux unzip maintained the
- original names!
-
- I also installed the PPP package as soon as possible and then I finished
- downloading some package directly from ARMLinux, the connection with my
- provider worked very well!
-
- > > The 'instimage' directory on the FTP site contains a few useful programs,
- > > 'cp' for a start (but you can also go on with 'cat' if you prefer).
- > actually, when I tried using 'cat' for copying files (of course, using sh
- > since I had booted using the RedHat install discs and ctrl-Z-ed out), it
- > wrote off my terminal, since cat decided to ignore my redirection and
- > blat it all to the terminal. Weird.
-
- Yes, you're right, I had a similar problem too!
- BTW: I copied the files using the second console (ALT-F2) after having loaded
- the supplemental disc from the Redhat installer.
-
- Cheers,
- Sergio
-
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- Sergio Monesi...
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- // Who is General Failure and why is he reading my disk?
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