There is no RedHat/RPMS directory. All the RPMs in the CD are under /SRPMS directory. 
The CD was a gift from someone. I don't know where they got it, but its the Macmillan 
version of RedHat.

Lee

> 
> > On Jan 28, Lee Ward wrote:
> > This isn't a standard RedHat. I checked in xterm and that's how I know it's
> > supposed to be /mnt/cdrom/SRPMS
> 
> If you have that xterm open, check in /mnt/cdrom/ to see if there's an RPMS
> directory or a RedHat/RPMS directory.  It's likely that you are trying to, or
> have, installed the source RPM.  This will not install the executables, but
> will rather install the tarball and the RPM configuration files.  To deal with
> a source RPM, I think you do an "rpm --rebuild <source RPM name>.rpm", but
> that's the harder way to do it.
> 
> Where did you get the CD-ROM?  CheapBytes, LinuxMall, ??
> 
> -Michael
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