Re: [newbie] 7.2(initial install) error installing packages:

[Paul]

On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Mitchell Hagerty wrote:

There was an error installing packages: 
setup-2.1.3-22mkd, filesystem-2.0.5, ld.so, glibc,
termcap, libtermcap, readline, bash.
Go On anyway?
I click on 'Yes' and recieve this.
error opening RPM database: cannot open file /mnt/var/lib/
rpm/nameindex.rpm: Invalid argument...

You may want to try and rebuild the rpm database:

rpm --rebuilddb

and try installing the packages by hand..
Paul

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Re: [newbie] 7.2(initial install) error installing packages:

[Mitchell Hagerty]

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 There was an error installing packages: 
 setup-2.1.3-22mkd, filesystem-2.0.5, ld.so, glibc,
 termcap, libtermcap, readline, bash.
 Go On anyway?
 I click on 'Yes' and recieve this.
 error opening RPM database: cannot open file /mnt/var/lib/
 rpm/nameindex.rpm: Invalid argument...
 
 You may want to try and rebuild the rpm database:
 
 rpm --rebuilddb
 
 and try installing the packages by hand..
 Paul

booting from a cd? 
could I have alittle more detail
on how I would go about doing this?
Is there a list of what order I should
install the rpms?

Mitch