[RULE] Re: Install Report (slinky 3.95 with Red Hat variant)

[Jason Bechtel]

Ray,

I think you should try to use the Lorma i686
packages as much as possible and I see no reason
why you shouldn't be able to use them all.  The
only thing it changes is that things won't run on
anything less than a 686-compatible processor,
but this was a given when you chose Lorma Linux
to begin with.  These packages should run faster
than i586 or i386 packages because they are
compiled to take advantage of the architecture
improvements over those older processors. 
Another reason is simply that you don't know what
Lorma might have changed in those packages and it
would be better if you just all packages from one
source.

You should be able to just do a global search and
replace on the package lists to change them to 686:

cat pkglist | sed -e 's/386/686/g' > pkglist.6
mv pkglist.6 pkglist

Jason


---- Begin Original Message ----
 From: "Raymundo Q. Baquirin" <rayb at apc.edu.ph>
Sent: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 13:47:04 +0800
Subject: [RULE] Re: Install Report (slinky 3.95
with Red Hat variant)

I succeeded (sort of!) in doing a basic install
of Lorma Linux using slinky.  
The problem I encountered earlier was that some
essential packages including 
glibc were not being installed.  When I checked
the rpms on the iso, the 
reason became clear: the packages were for a 686
architecture: 
glibc-2.3.2-27.9.i686.rpm,
openssl-0.9.7a-5.i686.rpm and a couple of other 
files (actually a lot more files but not all are
neeeded for a base install).

As a work-around, I copied the rpms to
/REDHat/RPMS in my windows partition.  
Then I downloaded i386 equivalent packages for
the i686 packages needed for a 
base install. Then I installed using slinky,
choosing the rpms install 
method.  As with the iso install method I had to
edit setup.sh so that my 
windows partition would be mounted.

The installation seemed to proceed without error,
up until where the kernel 
needs to be installed and a boot disk made. To
cut a long story short, the 
required kernel package was not available so no
kernel was installed.  But I 
was able to boot into the newly-installed system
using the slinky install 
kernel.

The install log (attached) still shows a bunch of
errors so I still have to 
see if the system is usable. Also, I'm wondering
about the i686 packages--can 
rpm be made to install these?  Would it be a good
idea to do so?  The Lorma 
Linux people seem to think so (they would not
have included them otherwise) 
but I don't have a response yet to the email I
sent them.  Should I just 
stick with the original Red Hat 9 packages?  If
that's the case I have a good 
number to download...

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