Thanks for the help on this. I've now got Webmin up and running.
The next problem is installing MySQL server. I've downloaded the .RPM file
and attempted to install it as I did with Webmin and all goes very well
until near the end when it's unpacking the archive at 79% unpacked I get the
message 'cpio: bad magic'. What on earth does that mean? I thought it might
be a corrupted archive but I've downloaded it twice from different mirrors
and got the same message. The archive file is called
MySQL-3.23.38-1.i386.rpm and I am running Mandrake 7.0 on a Cyrix 686 p200
with 32Mg RAM.
Any ideas?
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Lucas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 11:38 AM
Subject: [newbie] RPM Install
> I want to install Webmin (following some comments about it on this list).
> I've downloaded the .rpm file but I can't work out how to install it (I am
a
> long time Windows user and new to Linux). When I try to run 'rpm --install
> <filename> ' I get error messages about being unable to get exclusive
access
> to certain directories. I am logged in as root. Can anyone offer any help?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
