Hi,
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Jesse McDonnell wrote:
> Anyone know if it is possible to use YaST to uninstall rpms from a
> mounted but not / partition? When I boot to my hda6 partition in
> rescue mode (linux single) it is mounted read-only so I cannot run
> YaST. When I boot to hdb3 and mount hda6 on mnt/hda6 YaST naturally
> enough only wants to install/uninstall packages from /dev//hdb3. Is
> there a way around this catch-22 situation?
Yes. Mount hda6 on /mnt/hda6, cd to /mnt/hda6 and make a "chroot . bash".
You now have /mnt/hda6 as your root directory. "logout" will get you back
to you rescue system.
Bye,
LenZ
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