Tony Nugent wrote:
> On Thu Oct 21 1999 at 17:45, Matt Nelson wrote:
>
> > Subject: Re: a workaround for upgrading in presence of an NTFS partitio
>
> > > > i'm really pissed that i can't boot from the CD to upgrade, but that's
> > > > another story...
> > >
> > > Updated images were announced earlier this evening; they should be
> > > propagated to some mirrors by tomorrow.
> >
> > i just noticed that. but i'm still pissed, because now i need TWO
> > floppies in addition to the CD, and then i need special instructions to
> > get the whole thing rolling.
> >
> > Red Hat should issue a new CD. period.
>
> They won't do it. For many reasons, including the fact that it would
> no longer actually be redhat 6.1 - but a new version.
>
> It's not too difficult to build yourself another one using your
> original disk and then downloading the updates.
>
> In fact, I reburn updated rh install disks on a regular basis, and
> end up giving the older ones away - good promotion for linux and
> redhat... giving away good free software totally legitimitely :-)
>
> Because I do a lot of network installs, it's even easier to maintain
> an up-to-date image on a network server.
>
> Other companies are making a nice living by selling cheap copies of
> redhat distributions that include all the available updates in it.
>
> Cheers
> Tony
>
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