Michael,
Alternatively you could try booting from the RH 8 cdrom
into 'linux rescue' mode. Once it has mounted the current
file system in /mnt/sysimage you could download local copies
of the correct glibc rpms for RH8 and then install them
with the...
rpm --root /mnt/sysimage -Uvh
...form of the rpm command which would cause rpm to install on
the rh8 root partition using its rpm database.
Jack
