installing fc4 kernel (new to fc but not linux)
Kevin J. Cummings
cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
Fri Jun 17 22:01:41 UTC 2005
Markku Kolkka wrote:
> Gezim Hoxha kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika torstai, 16.
> kesäkuuta 2005 08:18):
>
>>Since I installed RC4 from HD I
>>don't have a "copy" of the CD #4 but I have the .iso. Would I
>>need to burn a copy then mount it,
>
>
> You can mount the .iso file without burning it:
> mount -o loop <path to .iso file> <mount point>
>
>>or how does this RPM thing
>>work?
>>
>>[root at WarpPower ~]# pwd
>>/root
>>[root at WarpPower ~]# rpm -Uvh
>>kernel-devel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.i686.rpm error: open of
>>kernel-devel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.i686.rpm failed: No such file
>>or directory
>
>
> You must give the rpm command a path to an existing file, it
> can't magick packages out of thin air.
Maybe not, but system-config-packages can read directly from the iso
files if you give it the --isodir=PATH option
--
Kevin J. Cummings
kjchome at rcn.com
cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
cummings at kjc386.framingham.ma.us
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