rpm command like aptget & yum install
On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 16:46:11 +0100, Robert Hull staggered into the Black Sun and said: This may confuse cweiler1. Starting with init=-bin-bash will get you...
I want to thank you all for your answers. I didn't give much info in my original question as I thought the answer would be a simple 'yes, use this flag', or 'no way'. The variety of answers is interesting to say the least. For a little bit more detail, we run RHEL4 ES on several production servers. I would have preferred Debian or even CentOS, but the suits wanted vendor support and accountability. I know there are other options as well, but for various reasons, Red Hat won. For my personal use, I live on Debian and its variants, and one of its big selling points to me is apt and it's extensions. I wanted similar functionality in Red Hat but I was hoping to keep it to their "included" packages (apt & yum are not available for RHEL 4 through their channels). My experiences with Red Hat thus far have been that they try very hard to find a reason to not support their product - and I knew that if they heard something like, 'I installed that through yum' or even saw that yum was installed, I would get the response 'you will need to install that through a supported means and stop using yum' or something similar. Thanks again for the suggestions.
Until somebody who knows the real answer responds...) Yikes!!! That command is seriously destructive. I'm a little surprised the system runs at all. Unless you know it can boot again, I wouldn't shut it down...
Amadeus W. M.
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