Mark Henry (MHenry@TransoftNetworks.com)
Fri, 23 Apr 1999 09:49:26 -0700
Michal,
Thanks for the info.
It would seem to me though, that seeing as how I have not modified the
contents of any of the directories since downloading it, then hdlist should
be accurate? The CD I created does indeed have the correct directory
structure...
Assuming then I must rebuild this file, how do I achieve this without having
linux up and running?
Yours,
Mark
> 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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