Please send the instructions you got on installing Webmin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Lucas [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 4:14 PM
> To: Linux Newbie
> Subject: Re: [newbie] RPM Install
>
> Thanks for the help on this. I've now got Webmin up and running.
>
> The next problem is installing MySQL server. I've downloaded the .RPM file
> and attempted to install it as I did with Webmin and all goes very well
> until near the end when it's unpacking the archive at 79% unpacked I get the
> message 'cpio: bad magic'. What on earth does that mean? I thought it might
> be a corrupted archive but I've downloaded it twice from different mirrors
> and got the same message. The archive file is called
> MySQL-3.23.38-1.i386.rpm and I am running Mandrake 7.0 on a Cyrix 686 p200
> with 32Mg RAM.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Mark
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Lucas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 11:38 AM
> Subject: [newbie] RPM Install
>
>
> > I want to install Webmin (following some comments about it on this list).
> > I've downloaded the .rpm file but I can't work out how to install it (I am
> a
> > long time Windows user and new to Linux). When I try to run 'rpm --install
> > <filename> ' I get error messages about being unable to get exclusive
> access
> > to certain directories. I am logged in as root. Can anyone offer any help?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Mark
>
