Linux Installer Question

Hello Blug People,
I have a question about the Red Hat installer that I hope you may be
able to help answer.

First some background:
I have a linux server that was breached and now many commands result
in seg faults and core dumps. I would reinstall but the server is in
Los Angeles and I am in Beijing. I have all of the RPM's for the
original RH8 install available on the server so I thought maybe I
could reinstall the RPM's. The major problem is that rpm itself wont
run. I am not sure why, the database rebuilds properly but the command
still core dumps. I think it is a linking problem and thought maybe
statically linked binaries may be of assistance.

I was thinking that the installer uses RPM's for the install process
and was wondering how things like RPM and its dependencies are
installed from RPM's when the tools are not yet available. I was
thinking that with an install cd I may be able to get some extra tools
that will allow me to install fresh files from RPM's. I looked at the
install CD but there are no binaries.

Any ideas would be really helpful.

Thank you,
-Chuck Hall

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Charles M. Hall
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