Quoting Sreekumar Kodakara (skodak at cs.umn.edu): > hi, > I am building an embedded system which runs on a disk on chip. I have made > the disk on chip bootable. Now I want to install RPM so that I can install > gcc and other packages. Is there a way to install RPM in this barebones > linux system? (By making the disk on chip bootable I have transfered only > the necesary system files to start and boot linux. gcc, RPM etc are not > present in the system.I used RH Linux 6.2 for this installation) > I see that in rpm.org the installation method given > assumes that I have gcc installed in the system which is not the case. Did you check out peewee linux? They have a fairly decent jump-start framework for embedding redhat linux on small devices -- Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.mn-linux.org, Minnesota, Linux | Fax : (952)943-8500 http://www.tcwug.org, Minnesota, Wireless | Coding isn't a crime. Fingerprint: 02E0 2734 A1A1 DBA1 0E15 623D 0036 7327 93D9 7DA3