Hi group,

I want to install a new system on a fresh disk, so I am using RPM on the command line. Using --root to install on the new target disk. I have the ISO mount and RPM can find the requested kernel* files, but he fails to find the dependences.

How can I tell RPM to look at the disk ISO to find the dependences??

Why do you want to install a fresh system? And why are you using rpm off a command line? Why rpm in the first place?

I really need a lot more information about if you are all ready using linux or not. If yes, What are you using? If no, how are you trying?

RPM is not designed to resolve dependencies, this is why yum came to be. You can use yum from the command line. IF you want to pull things from an iso, you have to mount the iso, and then redirect the media repo to the mount point for the iso.

I am using RPM because I can't figure out how to redirect YUM to another file system. With RPM I use the '--root' option. If you can tell me how to redirect YUM then I would use YUM, it is much easier to use.
I have the ISO mount on a loop back, is that is not a problem.

I want to install a small Linux image for my server. My server runs on a Soekris 4801 which is a 266mhz cpu. Last time I installed on this SBC it took 5 hours and created a blotted system with too much stuff on it. So I am trying to bypass the standard install process. I have tried Ubuntu, Gentoo, Bintoo and Debian, not impressed. I stick with Fedora, I know it well enough.

I'm not a newbie. I have been around for a few years, worked on many systems, including Unix mainframes. The problem is getting the tools to do what I want them to do, not what the developers want! Like array indexing that start at zero and not one! That is a different topic.

I have a real problem with the standard Fedora install! I don't want Evolution, Thunderbird, Firefox or all that other stuff. I want a small system image and I will select the extras that I want. Just trying to develop that process. I tried the 'Command line' install with Ubuntu but did not like the product.

I would still like to see a mini-Gnome process.

Ok, if you look in /etc/yum.repos.d there should be a file with media in the name. I am running C5.3 but here is mine:

You just change the baseurl to the mount point of the install ISO. You will also have to set enabled=1(turn on access to that repo) and change enabled=0 (turn off) all the other repos (in each file in the same directory).

You could do this with rpm, The easiest way to do this would be something like this:

rpm -ivh --root /path/to/kernel.rpm
===it will fail again but get the list of dependencies it needs===

rpm -ivh --root /path/to/new/fs /path/to/kernel.rpm /path/to/kernel.whatever-else.rpm /path/to/dependency-1.rpm /path/to/dependency-2.rpm /path/to/dependency-3.rpm ...


so basically just add the dependencies to the rpm command, so it knows to install those also.

if the dependency list is really long you could paste or redirect them into a file and then use sed or vi to remove the unneccasary info so you have a clean list of rpm names. Then add the path to each in the file.

=== so the file would look something like this===
/path/to/dependency-1.rpm
/path/to/dependency-2.rpm
/path/to/dependency-3.rpm
...


then run this command:

rpm -ivh --root /path/to/mount /path/to/kernel.rpm "`cat list-of-rpms`"


*** notice the "double-quotes" around the `ticks` this is important because the list, at least as I diplayed it is multiple lines, so if you don't put the "double-quoutes" it wont work. Unless you make the list-of-rpms file all 1 line... that would be hard to read though...


Goodluck though let us know how it goes!