Hey I just downloaded the whole giant distribution of Redhat 8.0, and the whole thing was *unpacked* from the iso's, so now I don't know which files to burn to which cds. There is a readme file, but it just says "put the srpms directory on the 3rd, 4th, 5th disks". I don't know exactly which rpm files go on which cds. Since there seem to be thousands of files, it isn't the kind of situation where trial and error will suffice. I was hoping that I could just install off the harddrive, but the whole package is too big to fit on the harddrive (3,000+ MB).

Could someone help me out ?? I have been looking for the specific structure, can't find it.

Dont know what you downloaded bro but thats not it.

You have to download the isos so you can just burn the cd and it can be bootable.

You must have downloaded from a URL like... .../pub/linux/redhat/8.0/en/os/i386/ . You just downloaded all the individual files. You didn't download the ISO files, so even if you burned all the files to the correct CDs, they wouldn't be bootable. You need to go up a couple directories in the URL to .../pub/mirrors/linux/redhat/8.0/en/ , and follow the ISO line rather than the OS line. You need to copy files like psyche-i386-disc1.iso . Get disc1, disc2, and disc3, and burn those to CDs. Be sure to tell your burning software to Burn from Image, or something similar.

Ok so I see where I went wrong - nice that the link on the redhat website was quite ambiguous.

So now I am downloading the 5 iso files (may as well download 5 if I have to dl 3), and I installed NERO since WinXP won't do image burning. Hopefully my prehistoric burner works with NERO.

Any more q's I will post em here.

Thanks
Terry

I saw a free program once that would let you burn ISOs in Win XP.

A quick Google search brings up...

http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm

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