Unable to run my rpm copied to a floppy disk?

[John Francis_1]

I copied a DELL Graphic Card RPM to my floppy disk which has been formatted in DOS and when I try to run the rpm in linux (rh6.2) i am unable to do it?

Should I format it in RH6.2. If so will it work when I use my windows to download the file and copy it to my floppy disk.

Could anyone reply to this pls. My email is jfkind@excite.com

[Albert E. Whale, CISSP]

John,

Can you mount the Floppy to read it?

if you perform an ls on the mounted filesystem, what do you see?


Do you have X windows running? If so, then you should be able to have a filesystem manager mount the floppy (if there isn't already a link on the Desktop for one).

[Kofi ARTHIABAH]

Do the following:

1. Download the rpm from the internet onto your dos-formatted diskette.
1.5 make sure that you have an /mnt directory on your linux box (create one if required with mkdir /mnt)
2. take the diskette to the Linux box and mount it with:

# mount /dev/fd0 /mnt -t msdos

3. now change directory to /mnt and check to make sure that you can list the files on the diskette:

# ls -lart /mnt

4. you should be able to now do an rpm -ivh

Good luck.

[John Francis_1]

I can mount my floppy and also I can see the files present in the floppy.But when I run the rpm command it does not proceed any further. I am using RH6.2 and I do not have xwindows and the reason I am trying run this rpm is to install my xwindows driver and to fix my xwindows problem.

My system has an Intel i810 Graphic Driver.[i810.6.2.i386]

thanks

[Kofi ARTHIABAH]

You could try the following:

Copy the rpm file from the floppy to say /var/adm and install from there...
AND you can run rpm with -vv option (very verbose ) messages and paste them here ... it would be easier to determine what the problem is.

regards/

[Bill Whittaker]

I have never clearly understood why this is, but I have found many times that files downloaded from a windows box won't run properly.

I would suggest that you download the rpm via ftp from the command line on the Linux box.
You may find that your problem has gone away

[Albert E. Whale, CISSP]

I'm sorry John, but I have not experienced this problem. I have always taken the files directly onto the Linux Filesystem.

Thre are many potential problems which could have occurred, even if you copy them from the floppy to the hard disk, there's no way of knowing what else has taken place.

If you are able to load RPMs, and you can load the RPM's from the CD-ROM, then I would attempt to get the RPM's from the source directly to your server.

Good Luck. Have a Great Day!