[RHCE] troubleshooting preperatoin

[Jeremy Portzer]

One drawback to using a Knoppix CD to troubleshoot a Red Hat install --
you don't have accses to rpm.  Running rpm with the "--root
/mnt/sysimage" option can be very useful for a number of reasons, such
as correcting the glibc update if you installed the wrong one, for
example.  (See my previous post.)

--Jeremy

On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 19:11, Jon Carnes wrote:
> I'm going to boot to knoppix and explore around.  That will confirm that
> it isn't a hardware or disk problem. After that I'll just make sure the
> data is safe (and the configurations: /etc copied to a safe place), and
> then I'll try the install myself.
> 
> Moving it back to RHCE... If I didn't have Knoppix, I would just boot
> the RH cd's to rescue mode and do my poking that way.
> 
> I would love to have you come along, but I'd have to ask the client
> first... and they won't be in the office again till tomorrow :-(
> 
> Take care - Jon
> 
> On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 18:59, Jason Tower wrote:
> > what did they do - try to apply windows updates?  *grin*
> > 
> > knoppix is terrific for such situations (or the red hat rescue cd, but i 
> > find that knoppix is more full featured and offers more networking 
> > tools and utilities, including X).  it has saved my butt on more than 
> > one occasion.  i'll be happy to join you if you want, it's always 
> > informative to watch a pro in action :)
> > 
> > jason
> > 
> 
> 
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