RE: How do you get your RHEL CDs?

Furnish, Trever G wrote:
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.

You could always use mkdvdiso.sh (see Google) to turn the four or five
CDs per release/architecture into a single DVD ISO image and use those,
assuming the machines you may need to use them on have DVD-ROM drives.
Alternatively, mount the DVD ISOs via loopback, make them available on a
central server (or one server/location, if bandwidth limitations apply)
and add PXE booting and kickstart into the mix to automate things as
much as possible.

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