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affiliate19
07-24-2002, 06:32 PM
installing RH 7.3 from CD.

okay, after verifying my images and attempting to install the bare minimum to get a first boot, the rpm still chokes on various packages: printer drivers, perl packages. it's different every time. with no option to skip/abort that particular package once the rpm install has begun, i have to go through 10 minutes of configuration every time to restart to get back to try another install.

are there other options to install? or am i missing some integral piece of information somewhere - like 7.3 doesn't HAVE the nessesary packages or something and i need to get them from somewhere else? i tried manually downloading the missing/corrupted rpms from http://www.rpm.org and replacing the ones on my install disks, and they're still coming up bad.

>>> 6 hours in on my first install. i didn't think i'd be wrestling with what seems like a trivial issue so long. any help would be appreciated. thanks!

mingshun
07-24-2002, 08:55 PM
Originally posted by affiliate19
installing RH 7.3 from CD.

okay, after verifying my images and attempting to install the bare minimum to get a first boot, the rpm still chokes on various packages: printer drivers, perl packages. it's different every time. with no option to skip/abort that particular package once the rpm install has begun, i have to go through 10 minutes of configuration every time to restart to get back to try another install.


You probably have encountered dependency errors since you
install only the bare minimum. Don't rpm so many packages at
one time. Install say perl and post the errors here.


are there other options to install? !

Look out for source files (tar balls).
They are files with the extension .tar.gz
Install them with these 2 commands on a command prompt

# gunzip *.gz
# tar xvf *.tar