[ale] Upgrading to RH6.0 w/o the cost

[Dunlap, Randy]

If don't need or want the RH book etc., you can purchase
the CDs or make them yourself or get someone to make
them for you.  They don't come with a boot disk,
but you can use RAWRITE.EXE under DOS or dd under
Linux/Unix to create a boot disk.  The CD is also
bootable if you have a BIOS that can do that.

My RH 6.0 CD cost me the price of a blank CD.

~Randy


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeffery B Layton [mailto:g593851 at yogi.mar.lmco.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 1999 7:52 AM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] Upgrading to RH6.0 w/o the cost
> 
> 

Hello,

  I'm immediately showing my ignorance, but that won't stop me
from asking my question. I'm currently running RH5.2 and want
to upgrade to RH6.0, but I don't want to spend $70 for it (or
the even cheaper $40)! I've seen several adds for cheap RH6.0
GPL CDs (around $5). My question is, do I just use these CD's
as I would the normal CD's with the expensive RH? If so, do
they come with a Boot Disk, and if not, is it easy to make one
for RH6.0?

TIA,

Jeff Layton

g593851 at fs1.mar.lmco.com
-or-
laytonjb at mindspring.com