[Rule-list] another 486 update [was Re: no ppp support in install kernel?]

[Eugene Wong]

> From: Michael Fratoni <address@hidden>
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> And then....
> After the ~2 hour download, the rpm install of glibc-common failed,
> complaining that it needed 56M available on the / filesystem. ARGHH!
> To make matters worse, it then deleted the temp file containing the rpm,
> so I couldn't even force it with rpm2cpio.
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I don't what it is about old computers, but I've found that my old 486 had a 
difficult time installing the rpms. I even added a swap file of about 70 MB, 
and had plenty of room left over. Yet it wouldn't install. When I tried to 
do it manually, I've found that a lot of the temp files were stored in 
/newroot/var/tmp  I don't know why. I just know that they were.

I tried rpming one of them, and it worked for the most part, but it kept 
getting errors. When I tried it the second time, I found that the rpm was 
already installed, but it produced the same errors.

If you want to test this with network installs, you're going to have to make 
it more tolerant to faults. I modified the second stage script to log all of 
the rpms that couldn't be installed, and quit no matter how successful the 
script was. I would then run ./retry.sh and that would move the log to 
./retries.lst and then go at it again.

I think that we would be better off downloading the rpms to 
/newroot/tmp/rpms and then install locally. Also, it would be more helpful 
to copy *all* the scripts over to the harddrive. This way, we could stop 
mounting disk2. It's not the end of the world if you don't do that, but it 
would help.

If you don't do it, I don't think that I can contribute much more, because I 
haven't been able to install it on my own. I'm not upset. I'm just trying to 
let you know what little I have to offer. I would still wish you well.


Sincerely, and with thanks,
Eugene T.S. Wong


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