On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 11:32:57AM -0500, Adam Maloney wrote: [yup, i'm replying] > This is after burning the 3 CD's needed for installation. I remember > installing Slack off of about 20 floppies. I've even installed MS-based > operating systems with only 1 CD, so this was kind of a shocker. You can install RedHat many ways, 2 floppies, 1 CD, or 3 CD's MS OS's don't come with 2 database servers, a web server, web proxy, something like 6 different programming languages, quite a few games, and a bazillion other things you may or may not need. > Well, more specifically, the actual FILES were there, but mysql_install_db > hadn't been run, and safe_mysqld isn't started at boot. The RPM'd > installation appears to be worthless, since mysqld can't find the database > directory, despite it being specified in my.cnf. So I decide it's > probably going to take far less time to just remove it and install from > source as I normally do. I've never seen the installation script fail for mysql-server, safe_mysqld isn't supposed to be started at boot (This is RedHat, not .. nevermind, everything just isn't enabled by default) > rpm --erase Mysql-blah fails depends check because of Perl-DBD. Okay, so > I rpm --erase Perl-DBD, which fails depends check because of Mysql-blah. > Great, I've seen this kind of circular logic before, but out of Redmond. > Okay, so I try rpm --erase --nodeps Perl-DBD and it hangs. Process is > running, not gaining time. It's been sitting there spinning for 30 > minutes. Yeah, man rpm, there's hardly ever a reason for --nodeps, and when you think there is, there isn't =) Overall, I'd say that particular piece of hardware requires a drop off a large structure. Compaq supports Red Hat, I've installed it on some of their more annoying hardware (proliant 3500), the only problem I had was finding the software to reconfigure the raid array. -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://www.poptix.net GPG public key 0x01938203 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list