Re: [cobalt-users] Introduction, Cobalt Linux distro questions

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 22 September 2002 09:05, John A. Federico wrote:

> > In order to make Sun/Cobalt service a necessity, they put things in
> > strange places and configure them such that you are dependent on
> > Sun/Cobalt to keep the system running
>
> This is expected. Other than corporate greed and lock-in, are there any
> technical reasons for this?
>
> If that's the case, I could probably just install mySQl, etc. from src,
> correct?

Sure (watch for fill on the small '/' partition)

> What version of RPM would work?

RPM? If you are going to install from source, 
http://www.mysql.com/downloads/mysql-3.23.html

Gerald
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