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Old 05-21-2004, 05:00 PM   #1
wogga
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SRPMS & i386


Can you guys tell me what the difference between SRPMS and i386 is

i was trying to download the image reddhat9.0 from isolinux.org, but it always downloads it corrupted, i just did the md5sum thing on it, surprisingly redhat's installation program did its integrity check and passed it.
i am trying to download it again(i tried twice before but the download ceases)

i am at the following link
http://www.freeway.va.no/filer/linux/redhat/iso/i386/
and i can see the following

shrike-SRPMS-disc1.iso 14-Mar-2003 00:00 608M
shrike-SRPMS-disc2.iso 14-Mar-2003 00:00 645M
shrike-SRPMS-disc3.iso 14-Mar-2003 00:00 425M
shrike-i386-disc1.iso 03-Sep-2003 21:54 638M
shrike-i386-disc2.iso 14-Mar-2003 00:00 646M
shrike-i386-disc3.iso 14-Mar-2003 00:00 485M

should i go for shrike-i386, is it redhat9.0 or some other version.
 
Old 05-21-2004, 06:53 PM   #2
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i believe the files you need are

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shrike-i386-disc1.iso 03-Sep-2003 21:54 638M
shrike-i386-disc2.iso 14-Mar-2003 00:00 646M
shrike-i386-disc3.iso 14-Mar-2003 00:00 485M
if i'm understanding you correctly that you wish to download the redhat iso's and burn them for an install. the difference in the install iso's and the srpm iso's is the iso's for install are compiled for you, the srpm iso's are the source code to recompile from scratch. hope that helps you out.
good luck.
 
Old 05-22-2004, 06:31 AM   #3
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you mean to say
if i download the SRPMS, i will be able to view all the code that goes into it.

what does SRPMS stand for?
 
Old 05-22-2004, 04:53 PM   #4
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what does SRPMS stand for?
source redhat package management/manager.
 
Old 06-21-2004, 05:03 PM   #5
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I on an Hewlett-Packard Intel Celeron 535mhz. Is there any benefit to downloading Fedora Core SRPM install instead of i386 install isos? Also, what is i386?
 
Old 06-21-2004, 05:13 PM   #6
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I on an Hewlett-Packard Intel Celeron 535mhz. Is there any benefit to downloading Fedora Core SRPM install instead of i386 install isos? Also, what is i386?
you'll almost certainly want the i386 iso's. the i386 is the architecture of the cpu.
good luck.
 
  


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