On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Lenz Grimmer wrote:
>
> 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
Hello Lenz,
Thanks, I'll do that this evening. Do you have any observations on
whether uninstalling the rpms that I installed immediately before I
started having boot problems is a feasible solution? Any particular
"gotchhas" I should look out for?
Thanks again,
Jesse
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