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Old 03-05-2003, 09:13 PM   #1
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possible problem when installed


Hi, these are my two problems:
A few days ago, I bought RedHat 8.0 Personal and installed it. But, out of the three installation cd's, it only asked me to put in the first two during installation. I'm wondering if I'm missing some things off of the third cd.
And, I'm wondering if there are possibly any drivers on this cd that will support a wireless network, because I'm having difficulty finding out what to do to get redhat to recognize my USB wireless network adaptor. Read my other thread in Linux-Networking, "Microsoft USB wireless networking with RedHat" to see that problem in full detail. Thanks.

By the way, I'm wondering how you open, uncompress, or whatever the term is in linux (i'm a newbie) to copy something off of a cd. Again, please see my other thread, as this will give you my specs and so forth. Thanks again!
 
Old 03-05-2003, 09:58 PM   #2
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The 3rd cd has a lot of extra packages on it. If you didn't do a full install then the chances are it wouldn't ask you for the 3rd cd.

To copy something off the cd you first have to mount it (after you put it in the drive, obviously) by doing:

mount /mnt/cdrom

Then go into that directory:

cd /mnt/cdrom

Find the rpm that you want to install and do:

rpm -ivh rpmIwanttoinstall.rpm
 
Old 03-05-2003, 11:44 PM   #3
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Re: possible problem when installed

Quote:
Originally posted by Indieguy
Hi, these are my two problems:
A few days ago, I bought RedHat 8.0 Personal and installed it. But, out of the three installation cd's, it only asked me to put in the first two during installation. I'm wondering if I'm missing some things off of the third cd.
You may not have selected features that required the packages that are on the third CD. I just did a fairly complete install today and it only grabbed around a half dozen packages or so off CD #3. I wouldn't worry about it too much.

If you're interested in what you're missing, you can place that CD in the drive and when the file browser comes up, go into RedHat -> RPMS and you can see the various packages.
 
Old 03-06-2003, 08:34 PM   #4
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Crashed_Again,
I think the commands work, but I can't get it to install. First of all, this doesn't come on the linux install cd's. The file i want to install is one i downloaded off the internet onto cd. So, is it still a rpm?

rnturn, youre right, i didn't do a full install, so I probably don't need the third one.
 
Old 03-06-2003, 09:21 PM   #5
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Originally posted by Indieguy
Crashed_Again,
I think the commands work, but I can't get it to install. First of all, this doesn't come on the linux install cd's. The file i want to install is one i downloaded off the internet onto cd. So, is it still a rpm?
Try:

file mysteriousfilename

If it's an rpm file, it should tell you.

A more geeky way to check is to issue:

od -c mysteriousfilename | head -1

if it returns

00000000 355 253 356 333 003 \0 \0 (The next three bytes vary a bit then you'll see the beginning of the package name)

then you've probably got an rpm file. :-)
 
  


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