Red Hat 9 Distro Question

johnny_575 · 08-30-2003, 10:11 AM

I recently purchased the book "Beginning Red Hat 9" that comes with a 2 cd RH9 distro. I looked through other RH9 books and they also included a 2 cd version. However, if you were to dl the isos, there are 3 total. And if you purchase a basic version there are also 3 cds. So what is the difference? What am I missing with my 2 cd version? Thanks.

zovres · 08-30-2003, 10:24 AM

I think they just removed some packages that were not for beginners like the ones the recompile your kernel for exemple

johnny_575 · 08-30-2003, 11:23 AM

Hmm....well is has the package you need to recompile the kernel. Thanks though.

netwerkz · 08-30-2003, 12:17 PM

I got the Red Hat Linux 9 Bible, and it came with 3 CDs, I belive they removed advanced packages so newbies dont get thierself hacked :P

Mathieu · 08-30-2003, 12:21 PM

Don't worry.
You can always download the RPMs from the RedHat web site or any other FTP server which has the RedHat distribution.