Hello Redhat people [Sob Story Mode =On] I have had a very hard time recently installing RedHat 5.0. I was installing from the DOS partition of my hard drive and every time the installation programme had finished formatting the swap partition I would receive a "Install Exited Abnormally- Received Signal 11" and the machine would shut down. The documention suggests that this error is most likely due to bad or misconfigured hardware so I tried to install on another PC. This made no difference. (I got a bit worried that Linux might not like Compaq so I tried a third time on my own generic brand PC at home and that didn't work either). Then due to a lucky accident on my part I tried to install the files again with the RPMS directory empty. A-ha! No "signal 11". Then I tried throwing in a few files between a*.rmp - c*.rpm. The "select which pakages to install" dialogue box came up (with a warning saying that not all the files were there). I smiled in now. [Sob Story Mode=Off] OK so here I am with 187MB of *.rpm files of which at least one is corrupt. Given that it takes about 10min to get the the stage of verifying wether a particular subset of .rpms is acceptable I have decided not to proceed with a trial and error method of finding the dodgy files. Now here are a few questions I need answering: 1) How can I (from DOS) verify that a RPMs file is corrupt or not? 2) Is there any way during the install of finding out what RPMs are being read, or more to the point why doesn't the install programme say "Oi file splat.rpm is corrupt"? 3) What is the minimum set of RPMs required for a mimimal install? [I'm trying to set up a firewall and would prefer to be able to fit thw whole thing into 300MB]. Thanks in advance for any advice, -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-lists To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
