Re: anaconda's code

2000-08-06 Thread Frank Hale
> If you're planning on making a distribution based on Red Hat, two > things will simplify your life greatly. > > 1) VMware > 2) CDRW media instead of CDR media. No coasters. > > Hope this helps you out. Thank you, I promptly downloaded VMware evaluation, dug out my CDRW's which had been coll

Re: anaconda's code

2000-08-06 Thread Frank Hale
> If you're planning on making a distribution based on Red Hat, two > things will simplify your life greatly. > > 1) VMware > 2) CDRW media instead of CDR media. No coasters. > > Hope this helps you out. > TTYL Well right now it just has customized packages to install. I've done away with stu

Re: anaconda's code

2000-08-06 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Frank Hale wrote: >> What are you having trouble understanding? > >I'd like to run the anaconda installer on my local drive. I've copied >the entire install CD to /redhat_cd. Since I modified alot of the >install packages and comps file. I made some new pixmaps and such for >t

Re: rpmdb conversion?

2000-08-06 Thread Svante Signell
Matt, Thank you very much for your assistance. Your help saved my day. btw: Where to find the rpm-4.0-0.66 (source), pinstripe has 0.59 while rawhide has 0.56. Matt Wilson writes: > It seems that you have some db 3.0 databases -- you must have been > caught in the middle of the db1 -> db3.0

Re: customizing RedHat 6.2

2000-08-06 Thread Bill Nottingham
John Summerfield ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > You missed the point. The option is not documented, either by "--help" or in > my man page, It's documented in the docs. You might say that you want the documentation somewhere else, but it *is* documented. > You also missed (snipped) the second que

Re: customizing RedHat 6.2

2000-08-06 Thread John Summerfield
> John Summerfield ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > > rpm --define "release_version 6.2" --define "release_name Zoot" -ba \ > > > redhat-release.spec > > > > > > and when did this new feature surface? > > 3.0. > > > [summer@possum summer]$ rpm -q rpm > > rpm-3.0.4-0.48 > > [summer@possum summ

Re: customizing RedHat 6.2

2000-08-06 Thread Bill Nottingham
John Summerfield ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > rpm --define "release_version 6.2" --define "release_name Zoot" -ba \ > > redhat-release.spec > > > and when did this new feature surface? 3.0. > [summer@possum summer]$ rpm -q rpm > rpm-3.0.4-0.48 > [summer@possum summer]$ rpm --define > --de

Re: customizing RedHat 6.2

2000-08-06 Thread Frank Hale
> > You can define RPM macros on the command line, hence: > > rpm --define "release_version 6.2" --define "release_name Zoot" -ba \ > redhat-release.spec > > :) > Thanks, I didn't know that. I wasted 3 days trying to find where those variables were defined. Frank __

Re: customizing RedHat 6.2

2000-08-06 Thread John Summerfield
> Frank Hale ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > I want to change the version and release name in a customized RH 6.2 CD > > I am making. I looked in redhat-release-6.2-1.src.rpm and I cannot find > > the definition of %{release_version} and %{release_name}. These > > variables would seemed to be defin

Re: running anaconda to test it.

2000-08-06 Thread John Summerfield
> On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 05:49:26PM -0400, Frank Hale wrote: > > > > This starts up and gives me the RedHat logo but then craps out with some > > error which doesn't really give me any information > > See, this may not look like information to you, but it can tell me > exactly what is wrong. O

Re: customizing RedHat 6.2

2000-08-06 Thread Bill Nottingham
Frank Hale ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > I want to change the version and release name in a customized RH 6.2 CD > I am making. I looked in redhat-release-6.2-1.src.rpm and I cannot find > the definition of %{release_version} and %{release_name}. These > variables would seemed to be defined somewhe

customizing RedHat 6.2

2000-08-06 Thread Frank Hale
I want to change the version and release name in a customized RH 6.2 CD I am making. I looked in redhat-release-6.2-1.src.rpm and I cannot find the definition of %{release_version} and %{release_name}. These variables would seemed to be defined somewhere else but where? Here is the spec file, keep

Re: running anaconda to test it.

2000-08-06 Thread John Summerfield
> How do you test anaconda. I made some changes to the pixmaps and I wanna > test it before I burn it to cd. I might set up a special entry in /etc/lilo.conf or s special boot floppy that mounts the ISO image as if it were a CD, and runs it from there. You might read /usr/src/linux/Doc

Re: eth0: card reports no resources.

2000-08-06 Thread John Summerfield
> and how would I find out? I have had a "resources" problem., and it HAS been connected with IRQ problems. How did I find out? I read the mesaages; these are your friends: dmesg less /var/log/messages I've slo noticed that a recent version of modutils is definitely duff (the recommen

Re: older redhat installers (before anaconda)

2000-08-06 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Frank Hale wrote: > I've got several old RedHat dists, with the text mode installer. Does > anyone know what language it was written in? C LLaP bero ___ Redhat-devel-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.co