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by **Daniel E. Jonse** » Fri, 23 Apr 1999 04:00:00

I recently read MacWorld's article on linux for PPC machines and decided
to give it a try. I have little experience with Unix, and am completely
new to linux. I am using a PowerMac 7200/90 running MacOS 8.5.1 with 4
hard drives: a 1.2 GB HFS+ (my normal MacOS startup disk), a 250 MB
HFS+ (MacOS backup disk), a 350 MB HFS (with the "RedHat" directory and
a second system folder so I can boot the kernel from a non-HFS+ disk),
and a 1.0 GB disk dedicated to linux with the following map:

/root 150 MB
/usr 500 MB
/opt 200 MB
/home 150 MB
swap ~65 MB

I downloaded the base files and all of the RPM files I want to install
to the 350 MB HFS disk and edited the "comp.pmac" file so I wouldn't get
a bunch of errors. I then used BootXApp to switch to Linux. When I run
the installer, everything works fine, all the way to the "select
components to install" screen. Since I only have the stuff I want in my
local "RPMS" directory, I chose "Everything" (actually, I tried this and
checking all the individual items). It then gives me the message:

Error: Fatal error opening RPM database

and it starts to put garbage about something across the screen until it
ends with "it is now safe to reboot...".

I have downloaded all of the files in the "base" directory inside
"RedHat" twice in binary mode (except the comps file). I then tried
downloading "hdlist" and "uglist" in text mode. That made no difference.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.
-Dan.

by **Bob Gorma** » Sat, 24 Apr 1999 04:00:00

Daniel,
I am no guru, but I ran across the same problems. The two things that I
did to remedy the problem are as follows;
I was pointing the installer at something other then the root partion in
the installer. I increased the /usr directory to
over 600 MB. Also be sure the /root partions name is only /
I hope that it works out, I have been running for about 3 weeks and it
is quite rewarding.

Bob

> I recently read MacWorld's article on linux for PPC machines and decided
> to give it a try. I have little experience with Unix, and am completely
> new to linux. I am using a PowerMac 7200/90 running MacOS 8.5.1 with 4
> hard drives: a 1.2 GB HFS+ (my normal MacOS startup disk), a 250 MB
> HFS+ (MacOS backup disk), a 350 MB HFS (with the "RedHat" directory and
> a second system folder so I can boot the kernel from a non-HFS+ disk),
> and a 1.0 GB disk dedicated to linux with the following map:

> /root 150 MB
> /usr 500 MB
> /opt 200 MB
> /home 150 MB
> swap ~65 MB

> I downloaded the base files and all of the RPM files I want to install
> to the 350 MB HFS disk and edited the "comp.pmac" file so I wouldn't get
> a bunch of errors. I then used BootXApp to switch to Linux. When I run
> the installer, everything works fine, all the way to the "select
> components to install" screen. Since I only have the stuff I want in my
> local "RPMS" directory, I chose "Everything" (actually, I tried this and
> checking all the individual items). It then gives me the message:

> Error: Fatal error opening RPM database

> and it starts to put garbage about something across the screen until it
> ends with "it is now safe to reboot...".

> I have downloaded all of the files in the "base" directory inside
> "RedHat" twice in binary mode (except the comps file). I then tried
> downloading "hdlist" and "uglist" in text mode. That made no difference.

> Any help would be greatly appreciated.

> Thanks.
> -Dan.

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