On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, James Melin wrote:

> Mark, thanks for the succinct point by point....
>
> The problem that remains is that the kernal update on the maint disk are in
> RPM format. I am attempting to get the CD contents over to the new file
> system in order to attempt to run the yast2 utility. I have doubts this
> will work, nor do I think that I can get away with running RPM with my root
> file system mounted at /mnt instead of /.
rpm --root
or
chroot ... rpm
man rpm for more
>
> Is there any way to extract the needed bits from the RPM?
man rpm2cpio


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Cheers
John.

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