[CALUG] FC5 Help

[Hugh Brown]

Yes.  It's free (as in beer) and easy to use.  Although it tends to make
your desktop dog slow while it is running.   It seems that having speedy
disks improves the performance (based on my limited use).

Hugh

On 7/6/06, Jason C. Miller <jason.c.miller at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Are you referring to VMWare server?
>
> On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Hugh Brown wrote:
>
> > On 7/6/06, Mark Wiater <mwiater at cablespeed.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Jason,
> > >
> > > can you not boot with a rescue CD ( i think fedora's comes with one,
> > > used to i think), chroot to wherever you mount your current
> > > installation and then install the requisite packages using the CD's
> > > environment?
> > >
> > > Mark
> >
> >
> >
> > This is the solution that first came to mind.  The other one would be to
> > download the rpm's and run
> > cd /
> > rpm2cpio <neededrpm>.rpm | cpio -idv
> >
> > and that would extract the rpm files into their appropriate
> places.  You'd
> > need to update your rpm database later and also run any of the scripts
> in
> > the rpm.  This of course assumes that rpm2cpio and cpio work on your
> system.
> >
> > As a suggestion for solving the original problem, if you have the disk
> > space, you might try using vmware's free product to set up a dev
> environment
> > that matches the rest of the team.
> >
> > Hugh
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