RE: How do you get your RHEL CDs?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces@redhat.com
> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Herta
> Van den Eynde
> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 5:46 PM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: How do you get your RHEL CDs?
>
> On 21/06/07, Furnish, Trever G <TGFurnish@herffjones.com> wrote:
> > Anyone have a better solution for keeping CDs in house for
> the various
> > flavors of RHEL than just downloading them and burning
> them? I need
> > to keep local media for disaster recovery, for several sites, and
> > lately it's become too much of a chore.
> >

>> ...snip...  

> Do you actually *need* them on CD? Or DVD for that matter?
>
> Perhaps you can simply copy them to disk, mirror or copy them
> offsite, and burn them only when you need them.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Herta

Thanks for the thoughts, but yes, just purchasing the media would definitely be better for me. I need 30 sets, of every major update. I don't even want to make one set, especially given that "one set" is actually four different sets for the different versions we use, let alone 30. Just being able to buy the CDs would simplify things greatly.

If I can't get that to happen ( :-( ), then I'll probably resort to copying the CD images to 8GB USB drives and setting up vmware player with an image to serve them to clients for network installs, but that still adds a dependency of having at least a laptop and network connections for my recovery (not a big deal), and it still requires at least one boot CD per anaconda release. What needless pain.

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