Hi Michael,

our Linux guru told me he was using "alien" (see: 
http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/alien/)
to convert rpm to deb.

HTH
Thomas Rupp

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Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] Im Auftrag 
von Michael Green
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 13. Juni 2007 22:07
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Betreff: Re: [ADSM-L] AW: [ADSM-L] Restore Linux system from TSM


On 6/13/07, Thomas Rupp <Thomas.Rupp AT illwerke DOT at> wrote:

> What we did to BMR a normal linux box is:
> * create a bootable linux CD (Knoppix) with a TSM client on it

AFAIK, Knoppix is a close relative of Debian which makes use of .deb, not .rpm.
How do you install the client on it?

(Do you extract RPM and then manually implant the files???)

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Warm regards,
Michael Green