I'm probably including too much info below, but hoped the answer might
be useful to some who just haven't been there yet. *8^)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> In the past I have always bought new versions of Red-Hat of
> cheapbytes.com or somewhere like that but this time I would like to
> download it onto CD. As I have never done this could some "kind"
> person guide me through how to do this. I often look at the FTP
> sites but am never sure what too download? I have a Pentium 600 Intel
> if that helps, currently with 6.0 on it. I use it mostly for a small
> server.
Eileen, This is what I did - last night, in fact:
1. Download the images. You probably should grab three of them;
a. 7.0-i386-disc1.iso
b. 7.0-i386-disc2.iso
c. 7.0-docs.iso
2. Download the MD5 summs and check for completeness is a good idea.
I'll admit, if pushed, that I frequently don't bother with this,
though I'll usually loop mount the iso image and check it out.
3. Burn the CD's. The command I usually use is:
cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,1,0 <iso-image>
Note that, of course, speed and dev value will vary with your
system. cdrecord --scanbus will give you the dev settings.
Another plan I've used in the past, if you have a spare drive partition
or a 2Gb Jaz drive around, is to loop mount each iso image to /mnt/cdrom
and then just copy the whole content of the image to the partition.
Then
make a boot floppy, reboot, and do a hard drive install/upgrade. One
thing I do when following this process is to mount & copy the iso images
in reverse order: ie. docs, then disc2, then disc1. Some of the files
overwrite those with duplicate names, and this just ensures that all the
files seen by the installer are those it would see when booting from the
cds. Probably not necessary, but the multi-cd setup is a new thing and
noone has found all possible "gotchas" as yet.
The loopback command is documented in several places; "man mount" or
a read through "man mkisofs" come to mind. If I recall correctly, it's
just "mount <image.name> -r -t iso9660 -o loop /mnt/cdrom". Then just
reference /mnt/cdrom as if a cd were mounted.
best
rickf
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