On 02/10/2007, Itamar Reis Peixoto <itamar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > you don't want chroot to the old filesystem because you dont have rpm > installed > > first read the rpm manual > > and install rpm and yum with something like this > > rpm -Uvh --force --nodeps --root=/mnt/xyz http://mirror.fedora/yum.rpm > http://mirror.fedora/rpm.rpm http://mirror.fedora/grub.rpm etc... Avoid --force like the plague. It is the same as --replacepkgs --replacefiles --oldpackage, pick the options you really need. The --replacefiles option is the one you want to stay away from. It permits RPM to overwrite installed files even if they belong into other packages.
