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Re: More installation woes.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chaimf@cris.com)
Mon Nov 11 12:27:02 1996

From: Chaimf@cris.com
To: djb@redhat.com (Donnie Barnes)
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 12:17:33 -0500 (EST)
Cc: chaimf@cris.com, redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <199611110411.XAA27635@redhat.com> from "Donnie Barnes" at Nov 10, 96 11:11:21 pm
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
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Donnie Barnes wrote:
> >When doing an NFS installation, the 4.0 RPMS are hardcoded into
> >the installation. So I am unable to do a single step installation
> >with the latest RPMS.
> 
> That's not a bug, but a design decision.  You just need to put
> the RPMs in the tree and run the genhdlist program using the path
> to your tree as an argument.  You can find genhdlist at 
> misc/src/install on the CD or FTP site.

Fine. But 
	1. Where is this documented?
	2. Where is the warning?
	3. I did *not* receive this error when doing a hard disk
	   install. (Which I did first) Either that install did
	   not complete properly with no indication, or the two
	   installations have different methodologies.

<chaim>


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