On Monday, Nov 10, 2003, at 20:32 Europe/London, Kris Jordan wrote:
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:
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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:
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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
OK, I think I have solved that problem, but I still have a list of missing RPMs that I do not seem able to find in either the taroon/3 SRPMS dir.
The following are ones that seem to be missing:
yaboot efibootmgr elilo s390utils ppc64-utils acpid iscsi reiserfs glut-devel statserial lr252 libglade-devel gnome-vfs-extras rhnmd pam-smp commons-fileupload-devel
I'm guessing I don't need the s390/ppc64 ones, but it would be nice to know where they came from.
Thanks
Jake
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