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Re: Computax



  Hi,

On Thu, 28 May 1998, Eli Marmor wrote:

> > btw1: should i change file's modes ? permissions ? gid ? uid ? before
> > burning?
> Urgent! Somebody with experience in burning RedHats to answer him!

YES.
Previous versions of Red Hat (Well, 5.0) wanted specific modes. I have _no
idea_ what they are, as I used lftp's mirror function to DL it. Use any
mirror software to get the right perms. Or get i386.tar.gz for it to do an
on-the-fly thing, which'll hopefully preserve modes. 

The command I used to make the image for 5.0 was:
mkisofs -a -f -l -L -o /tmp/RH5.iso -R -r -T -v /usr/local/linux/rh5

I didn't use linux to burn the actual CD, because I don't have a burner.

I was going to try and make a 5.1 CD today, but ALL THE DAMN MIRROR SITES
ARE BUSY! The ones I _did_ get give me awful rates. Started at 50+k/sec,
now it's down to 5 at best.

> > btw2: is this all (341Mb) 
> Looks too small...  (just IMHO)

RH isn't that huge. I'd get the contrib dir too. You can erase the SRPMs
dir if you run out of space. 

> > btw3: should i add somthing ? (kde ? or any other stuff)

Looks like Gnome's on the CD, KDE was in the contrib last time I looked. I
think KDE's licensing prevents it from being shipped on a commercial CD. 

All the goodies (Netscape, gimp, etc) are on the CD, but you might like to
get an uptodate gimp, and a _non_ RPM'd netscape.

I _seriously_ doubt this is possible, but getting StarOffice or some other
office suite on would be great - at least to display at the show (burning
SO on a CD would be illegal).

I'm afraid I can't contribute more than advice on this one ): I'm even out
of Linux Inside stickers. 


			Bye,

				-Yaron.