[RULE] Re: Install Report (slinky 3.95 with Red Hat variant)

[Raymundo Q. Baquirin]

Hi, all,

I succeeded (sort of!) in doing a basic install of Lorma Linux using slinky.  
The problem I encountered earlier was that some essential packages including 
glibc were not being installed.  When I checked the rpms on the iso, the 
reason became clear: the packages were for a 686 architecture: 
glibc-2.3.2-27.9.i686.rpm, openssl-0.9.7a-5.i686.rpm and a couple of other 
files (actually a lot more files but not all are neeeded for a base install).

As a work-around, I copied the rpms to /REDHat/RPMS in my windows partition.  
Then I downloaded i386 equivalent packages for the i686 packages needed for a 
base install. Then I installed using slinky, choosing the rpms install 
method.  As with the iso install method I had to edit setup.sh so that my 
windows partition would be mounted.

The installation seemed to proceed without error, up until where the kernel 
needs to be installed and a boot disk made. To cut a long story short, the 
required kernel package was not available so no kernel was installed.  But I 
was able to boot into the newly-installed system using the slinky install 
kernel.

The install log (attached) still shows a bunch of errors so I still have to 
see if the system is usable. Also, I'm wondering about the i686 packages--can 
rpm be made to install these?  Would it be a good idea to do so?  The Lorma 
Linux people seem to think so (they would not have included them otherwise) 
but I don't have a response yet to the email I sent them.  Should I just 
stick with the original Red Hat 9 packages?  If that's the case I have a good 
number to download...

Waiting for advice,

TIA,

Ray