On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 01:32, Donna and Matthew Persico wrote: > > Turns out that after I wrote, I found the AutoInst disk I made about > two installs ago. Imagine my surprise when I opened it up and > discovered that it is nothing more than a PERL SCRIPT!!!! It's just an > array of rpms in no discernible order. Soooooo, I simply did > > rpm -qa | perl -ane '$F[0]=~s/-[0-9].*//;print "$F[0]\n" | sort -u > foobar > > and then slapped the whole mess into the auto_inst.cfg file, taking > care to remove the few rpms that were not on the installation disk. > > Touchdown, ballgame over. Well, not quite. After I did that, I took > the machine apart and started transplanting the pieces into the newer > machine only to discover that the old machine had an AGP1 video card > and the new machine is an AGP2/4. So, the port is on hold until I can > buy a new video card tomorrow. > > Thanks for your assistance. > > -- > Matthew O. Persico
You're welcome, and I appreciate greatly the command line above! It will be handy in future installs I am sure. :) l8r, --LX -- ��������������������������������������������������� Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdk Evolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ ���������������������������������������������������
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