On Thursday 23 June 2005 18:34, Dinesh Ahuja wrote: > Sorry for troubling again. This has been discussed > previously but I was not able to make out any way > around for my problem and hence posting the latest > problem which I am facing while installing RPM on UML > filesystem.
> As per your suggestions, I have created a new > filesystem and mounted it on /mnt/cdrom Well, I don't remember the exact reason, but if you need simply to expand the available space on a UML filesystem, it can be expanded on the host (search the list / the Wiki). > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# mount -t ext2 -o loop > /home/dahuja/DownLoads/UMLPatches/disk2.img > /mnt/cdrom > > The free available space is as follows : > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# df -h /mnt/cdrom > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /home/dahuja/DownLoads/UMLPatches/disk2.img > 146M 13K 138M 1% /mnt/cdrom > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] UMLPatches]# rpm -i --root /mnt/cdrom > glibc-common-2.3.2-4.80.8.i386.rpm > warning: glibc-common-2.3.2-4.80.8.i386.rpm: V3 DSA > signature: NOKEY, key ID db42a60e > installing package glibc-common-2.3.2-4.80.8 > needs 39MB on the /mnt/cdrom filesystem > Installing glibc-common gives me above error, but df > command shows sufficient memory to proceed with > installation. I guess the real error is that there is no RPM database in the mounted filesystem, and that can be solved with rpm --initdb --root /mnt/cdrom (possibly after creating /mnt/cdrom/var/lib/rpm with correct permissions). > Please advise on this. > > Thanks & Regards > Dinesh -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's "Doh!". Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID "PaoloGiarrusso", ICQ 215621894) http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade ___________________________________ Yahoo! Mail: gratis 1GB per i messaggi e allegati da 10MB http://mail.yahoo.it ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list User-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user
