How do you get your RHEL CDs?

[Furnish, Trever G]

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. 

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Ali, Saqib
> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 5:44 PM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: How do you get your RHEL CDs?
> 
> 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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