[CALUG] FC5 Help

[william kelly]

http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/

really great for testing environments.



On 7/7/06, Hugh Brown <brownclan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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