I had a similar problem, I had to build the needed kernel for the machine. To get the rest of the RPMs that Red Hat usually includes I did the below. Note, i586 is not standard, but I need it for a couple older machines.
Building i586 kernel: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.21-4.EL.src.rpm Edit SPEC file (add i586 to the correct list so it will build): # groups of related archs %define all_x86 i386 i586 i686 athlon rpmbuild -bb /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/kernel-2.4.spec Building i686/athlon packages: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- rpmbuild --target i686 --rebuild openssl-0.9.7a-22.1.src.rpm rpmbuild --target i686 --rebuild glibc-2.3.2-95.3.src.rpm rpmbuild --target i686 --rebuild kernel-2.4.21-4.EL.src.rpm rpmbuild --target athlon --rebuild kernel-2.4.21-4.EL.src.rpm - Kris Jordan - * More comments below * > I thought I was going to be able to install RHEL today after building > the RPMs, but it seems that fate is against me. > > I booted the machine to take RHEL via a network install and it went > through the partitioning and Grub setup ok it them bombed out with the > error message: The machine you are trying to install on is not > supported by this version of RHEL. I got this. > > Just before the machine rebooted, I managed to see a lot of errors > saying that none of the packages/package groups could be found. I don't remember if this is the same thing I got, so the above might not help. I had something to the effect that the kernel packages could not be found. > > Is this a problem with comps.xml? > > I have tried to follow the old howto, and the posts on the mailing list > and I was hopeful that it would work - but not so - has anyone else had > problems with this, I copied the comps.xml from taroon, but couldn't > the /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/check-repository.py as it issued a lot > of error messages. I did the same, I found out the errors with the comps.xml (few packages that no longer exist) during the install (I think) using Alt+f3. > > Has anyone else had similar problems? > > THanks > > Jake > > rhel-rebuild mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hosted at the University of Innsbruck, Austria > rhel-rebuild mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hosted at the University of Innsbruck, Austria
