Michal Jaegermann (michal@ellpspace.math.ualberta.ca)
Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:23:40 -0600 (MDT)
Mark Henry wrote:
>
> .... when I get to the point of 'Find Installation
> Files', I get a message ''error opening header file: no such file or
> directory" and that is that.
It expects to find a file RedHat/base/hdlist
> I made a cd out of what I got from red hat's ftp site, the root dir of which
> appears below. This I suspect may by part of the reason.
Ready CD images include that file or it can be generated with a help of
a utility 'genhdlist' which you can find in misc/src/install/ (together
with 'dmphdlist'). Actually this hdlist file has to be recreated if
you replace on your CD some files with their updates, for example.
If it does not correspond exactly to a contents of RedHat/RPMS/
directly the installation software from Red Hat will fail - does not
matter which platform. One can still use a CD with wrong, or missing,
'hdlist' for manual installation/updates but this is another story.
> p.s. what is the difference between the kernel version and the release
> version
They have really nothing to do with each other; every Red Hat release
comes with some version of a kernel, of course, but you can easily
substitute there some other one. Shared libraries, OTOH, may be much
harder to replace for a particular release.
> and how do you determine what versions of these you have?
Top level README usually identifies Red Hat release. A kernel version
can be checked by looking at RedHat/RPMS/kernel* files. Also running
'rpm -qip *.rpm' in RedHat/RPMS/ directory will produce a description
of every archive in the set. This command does not depend on
architecture so you can issue it on Intel Linux box, for example,
to review Alpha, or Sparc, distribution.
Michal
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