Dell DRAC 5 cards and 6.1-RELEASE

[Paul Schmehl]

--On Monday, September 18, 2006 21:50:36 +0400 Boris Samorodov 
<bsam at ipt.ru> wrote:

> Hi, Paul!
>
>
> On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:29:41 -0500 Paul Schmehl wrote:
>
>> The native card has enough functionality for what I need, but what I'm
>> wondering is if anyone has managed to get the extra functionality
>> working under linux emulation.  If so, how did you install the rpm?
>
> Don't have any experience with those cards, but I can say how to
> install a linux rpm:
>
> - ensure you have archivers/rpm2cpio installed (it is already
>   installed if you have installed any linux_base port);

I installed linux_base-fc4.

> - copy dist.rpm to any empty directory and run a command:
>   $ rpm2cpio < dist.rpm | cpio -id
> - brandelf all binary files (not libraries!):
>   $ brandelf -t Linux binary_file;
> - as root do:
>   # find * -type d -exec mkdir "/compat/linux/{}"
>   # find * ! -type d | cpio -pm -R root:wheel /compat/linux
>   If any non-standard directories for linux libraries are created then run
>   # /compat/linux/sbin/ldconfig -r /compat/linux
>

Thanks.  I'll try this out and see what happens.

> If everything goes well, you may add a pkg-plist and submit a new
> port. ;-)

Sure.  Why not?

Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
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