Re: rpm install from rescue CD

* Bob Tennent wrote in comp.os.linux.misc:
I'm trying to use rpm from the 1st install CD of FC4. I'm trying to
re-install glibc packages that didn't get installed properly leaving the
system without ld. I've tried the following:

rpm -U --replacepkgs --root /mnt/sysimage glibc*

and am getting

error: can't create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/_db.000

What can be done?

Bob T.

When you boot a rescue CD it mounts the filesystem on the rescue CD as
your root. RPM is trying to create a lock on read only media. You need
to chroot the fixed disk / and rerun the command.
--
David
A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
-- Ogden Nash
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