I have some problem in my SUSE 9.3, now it can only be booted via rescue disk. I am trying to mount all paritions in and then chroot to the root parition. I got a problem to fix something from the technical support but it require gnu libc 2.4 (for x86_64). I download glibc-2.4x.rpm and trying to install it with

rpm -i glibc-2.4x.rpm

but it fails.

Is that any way for me to install the glibc? I try to run yast in the rescue mode, but don't seems no way to install it.

By the way, with the rescue disk, is that possible to reinstall glibc without removing all others data?

glibc is already installed ( most likely a 2.8 version). why do you need a different one than the one you have running
can you post THE ERROR

you can always build the source and install someplace NOT IN YOUR SYSTEM PATH then build and link
-- what ever it is that needs it -- you did not say .

if you install a old glibc to /usr ( on top of the current one) you WILL KILL your system

I don't know what version in others suse 9.3. But in mine, the glibc is only 2.3.x, I don't need to upgrade it to 2.4, otherwise many softwares can't be installed.

I google all downloadable glibc and find that no glibc for 9.3 which is higher than 2.3.x, all of them with higer version is for 10.x.

Now I upgrade from glibc.2.3.x to glibc 2.5.34.7 without any problem, buy when I trying to install another softwate, it shows

rtld (GNU_HASH) is needed by xxx

But what is rtld? I google this and find that rtld should be included in glibc, right?