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deleeuw
04-23-2007, 06:05 PM
Hey all,
How does one make an installation (i.e. bootable) DVD from the 3 RH 9 cd's?
BTW, I had copied the 3 CD's onto my harddrive; when I try install my RH from the 1st CD, it can't read the disk (but the drive can read other disks fine). Thank God for backups!
klackenfus
04-23-2007, 06:36 PM
Not really answering your question but is there any reason you want to go with such an old distro? I mean, you could burn the new CentOS 5.0 distro from the freely available ISO and basically have Red Hat Enterprise 5.
blackbelt_jones
04-23-2007, 10:56 PM
Wow, does THAT take me back! :rolleyes:
Three years ago, what I knew about Linux you could jam into a thimble, but I loved that Red Hat 9! I could surf and and chat and download for days, and my cheap-*** dial-up provider would never throw me off, which may have been just luck, but I took it as a sign of "superior stability". My ISP would always throw me off after a few hours running Windows 98. I once stayed online for a ten days without interruption, as a kind of experiment, but eventually, I had to make a phone call. I was impressed beyond belief with Red Hat's clean simple desktop interface, which I later learned was called "Gnome".
It was all great fun. But I'm having even more fun now!:)
It's amazing how long three years is in Linux. Back then, WIndows XP was already a few years old!
d_casper
04-24-2007, 02:45 PM
How does one make an installation (i.e. bootable) DVD from the 3 RH 9 cd's?
download mkdvdiso.sh script from here (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-February/msg04981.html), its works with CDs of all distros.
deleeuw
04-24-2007, 05:38 PM
d_caspar, thanx for the link. As I haven't been able to even install my RH9, can I run this in FreeBSD 6.1?
Thx
deleeuw
04-25-2007, 10:46 AM
Hey all,
I downloaded a RH9 .iso from a site and burned onto a DVD--RedHat is installed and up and running. I think the problem may have been that the RedHat CD's (from the "Red Hat Bible") may not play too well when running in DVD player (at that certain Washington company we had a similar issue with at least one particular web-design software).
Thanks for all your help!