How do you get your RHEL CDs?
Furnish, Trever G
TGFurnish at herffjones.com
Sun Jun 24 01:29:52 UTC 2007
Thanks, but that's not a solution for my needs -- I can't rely on a web
server, even one in house. Has to be media in a box.
I must say, I consider Red Hat's unwillingness to produce media for
their major updates, even when a customer is willing to pay for them, to
be pretty odd and disappointing.
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> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 5:44 PM
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> Subject: Re: How do you get your RHEL CDs?
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> Mount the ISO images on a linux based file repository, and
> make that mount point accessible via HTTP. That way anyone
> can access the media over HTTP. You can even do a fresh
> install over HTTP
>
> mkdir /var/www/html/RHEL40CD01
> mount -o loop -t iso9660 file.iso /var/www/html/RHEL40CD01
>
> saqib
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/encryption
>
>
> On 6/21/07, Furnish, Trever G <TGFurnish at herffjones.com> wrote:
> > Anyone have a better solution for keeping CDs in house for
> the various
> > flavors of RHEL than just downloading them and burning
> them? I need
> > to keep local media for disaster recovery, for several sites, and
> > lately it's become too much of a chore.
> >
> > I HATE burning and labeling and testing CDs. And lately we
> seem to be
> > in a transitional stage between 32-bit and 64-bit, between
> Intel and
> > AMD, and between RHEL versions [345]. With all the
> variations, this
> > is getting to be a problem, but Redhat wasn't very helpful when I
> > asked how I could just buy CDs to accompany my RHN
> subscriptions. I
> > checked a few of the fedora media vendors, like CheapBytes,
> but so far
> > haven't found anyone providing RHEL on CD.
> >
> > Yes, I'm aware I can get Centos from those vendors, but I have no
> > interest in Centos -- I'm paying for RHEL for a reason. :-)
> And I'd
> > be happy to pay for CDs if I could find them or talk Redhat into
> > selling them.
> >
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