Burning a RedHat CD HOWTO

Morten Kjeldgaard, mok@imsb.au.dk and Peter von der Ahé, pahe+rhcd@daimi.au.dk

1. Introduction

2. Anatomy of the Red Hat FTP site

• 2.1 The top level directory
• 2.2 The "RedHat" directory -- the core of the distribution
• 2.3 The "updates" directory

3. RPM packages

4. Obtaining your local copy of the distribution

5. Incorporating the updates

• 5.1 Correcting the file protection modes
• 5.2 Replacing the updated RPMS
• 5.3 Generating a new hdlist file
• 5.4 The comps file

6. At last: burning the CD

• 6.1 Creating a bootable CD

7. Installing from the CD

• 7.1 Booting from a bootable CD

8. Other Linux distributions

9. This document...

• 9.1 Related documentation
• 9.2 Acknowledgements

10. DISCLAIMER