How do you get your RHEL CDs?

[Furnish, Trever G]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Herta 
> Van den Eynde
> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 5:46 PM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: How do you get your RHEL CDs?
> 
> 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.
> >
>> ...snip...
 
> 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

Thanks for the thoughts, but yes, just purchasing the media would
definitely be better for me.  I need 30 sets, of every major update.  I
don't even want to make one set, especially given that "one set" is
actually four different sets for the different versions we use, let
alone 30.  Just being able to buy the CDs would simplify things greatly.

If I can't get that to happen ( :-( ), then I'll probably resort to
copying the CD images to 8GB USB drives and setting up vmware player
with an image to serve them to clients for network installs, but that
still adds a dependency of having at least a laptop and network
connections for my recovery (not a big deal), and it still requires at
least one boot CD per anaconda release.  What needless pain.