Burning a RedHat CD HOWTO

Luigi Bitonti

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Morten Kjeldgaard

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Peter von der Ahé

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Fourth BETA version for release 2.0 of the HOWTO
Revision History
Revision v2.02002-10-28Revised by: lb

Table of Contents
1. Introduction
1.1. Disclaimer and License
2. Anatomy of the Red Hat FTP site
2.1. Redhat 8.0 directories organization
2.2. The "RedHat" directory -- the core of the distribution
2.3. The "updates" directory
2.4. Differences for the 7.x tree
2.5. Differences for the 6.x tree
3. RPM packages
3.1. Comparing two versions of a RPM package
4. Obtaining your local copy of the distribution
4.1. Using wget and bash
4.2. Using mirror
5. Including the updates
5.1. Correcting the file protection modes
5.2. Replacing the updated RPMS
5.3. Rebuilding the installer
6. Burning the CD(s)
6.1. Test the image(s)
6.2. Burn the disk(s)
7. The comps file
7.1. Format of comps file in RedHat versions < 6.1
7.2. Format of comps file in RedHat version 6.1
7.3. Format of comps file in RedHat version 6.2
7.4. Format of comps file in RedHat version 7.3
7.5. Format of comps file in RedHat version 8.0
8. Installing from the CD
8.1. Booting from a bootable CD
9. Other Linux distributions
10. This document...
10.1. Related documentation
10.2. Acknowledgements