On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Richard Adams wrote:
> According to John Roberts: While burning my CPU.
> >
> >
> > I don't think my problem is the same that you were having... My setup is
> > as follows, i have a 2.6 GB WD as hda my CD-Rom drive as hdb and a Seagate
> > 240 MB drive as hdc. Could the problem be that i have hdc as my /tmp dir,
> > and the rest of my install on the Western Digital drive (hda) ? It's not
> > that this is really a life threatening thing, i just prefer to have the
> > xrpm thingey, rather than the console based 'rpm -i' deal. Should i maybe
> > just scrap the install again, and start fresh? I'm in a quandry.
> >
>
> As long as you mount /dev/hdc(?) as /tmp when asked about paths and disks
> during installation, it should work that way, altho, i ask why you would
> want /tmp on a seperate disk, the tmp directory would normaly need no more
> than 1 or 2 megs of space.
>
> During normal use /tmp, in this case /dev/hdc(?) (you do not state the
> partition number), would need an entry in /etc/fstab like.
>
> /dev/hdc1 /tmp ext2 defaults 0 0
>
> That will mount /dev/hdc1 as /tmp on /dev/hda(NUMBER) where NUMBER is the
> partition number where your "root filesystem" is located, make sure you have
> a /tmp directory there for the disk to be mounted into. (mount point).
>
> If that does not work, then either you are forgetting to state the partition
> number somewhere, or your IDE controller is playing tricks on you.....
>
> When up and running 'df' will show whats mounted and where it is mounted.
> So will 'mount' but mount is not so informative and rather untidy in
> format.
>
> On another note, after rereading your origanal message, i ask myself what
> you realy are trying to do, why would the cdrom be mounted in,
> (/mnt/cdrom/blah/blah) when you are installing a Distribution, you either
> install a complete distribution, or upgrade a distribution, either way you
> use the boot disk's supplied on the cdrom for that.
>
> If you want to install seperate packages after installing a distribution,
> then rpm -i <rpm_package> is the way to go, or just use 'tar' for the tar.gz
> packages.
>
> Or quite possably i (we) are missing the point here as the message has been
> quoted so many times now.
>
>
> --
> Regards Richard.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
From what i've been reading on the group regarding the original message
I, too, think that my problem got a bit unclear. The installation of the
distribution ( RH 5.1 ) goes perfectly, not a single hitch. i set up X,
and was on my way to installing some packages, i think i first tried KDE
and QT. I went to the package installer thingey from the control-panel
menu in X, went to configure and chose (after i mounted my CD drive)
/mnt/cdrom/kdeBeta4/blah/blah/blah/ the directory that the binary .rpms
were in. Then i clicked 'Available'. The Status bar appeared saying
'searching for available packages' or some such message, but never
started. The HDD's weren't making any noise, and the bar didn't move. So
i figured that maybe it didn't want to install from the CD drive and i
copied the .rpms to my /tmp dir. Then i switched the 'configure' tab to
search in the /tmp directory, and the same thing happened. After doing
that i read in one of the messages in this group that someone had a
similar problem and solved it by grabbing the glint rpm off the RedHat
errata pages. so i downloaded that and used the 'rpm -i' method to
install the updated version of glint. So i then went back into X to
install the kde rpms and the same thing happened, the status bar appeared
but did not move. I guess my question would be, what do i try next?
Thanks for the help,
John Roberts
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