lost commands

[Kwan Lowe]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 5:44 PM, suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Just out of curiosity, how would one do that without any of the
> package management tools available? Is it with a separate instance of
> rpm/yum that is on the rescue disc? But aren't packages like yum and
> rpm not relocatable?
>
> Thanks for any clarifications.

Yes, there is a separate installation of rpm/yum on the rescue disks..

With a rescue disk you can use the rpm --root /path/to/fakeroot  to
install packages.  Yum has a similar option with "installroot".