How do you get your RHEL CDs?

Herta Van den Eynde herta.vandeneynde at gmail.com
Thu Jun 21 21:45:33 UTC 2007


On 21/06/07, 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.
>
> --
> Trever

Do you actually *need* them on CD? Or DVD for that matter?

Perhaps you can simply copy them to disk, mirror or copy them offsite,
and burn them only when you need them.

Kind regards,

Herta




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