[ale] Downloading Linux the easy (?) way

[Vernard Martin]

> files. I was wondering is somebody could point me to a way to grab an
> entire distribution in a one-shot download or a way to automate the DL
> process. I have been playing with various CD-ROMs for a while now but
> keeping up with the latest versions has become annoying.

Yes, this is doable. Both RedHat and SuSE have taken the liberties of creating
ISO filesystem images of their distributions and made them available for
download. You can use almost any cd-burning software to write this ISO image
directly to this disk and have a bootable linux installation. The two images
that I am aware of are the SuSE 6.0 evaluation image available at 
ftp.cc.gatech.edu:pub/linux/distributions/suse/ and the redhat 6.0 image
available at ftp.cc.gatech.edu:pub/linux/distributed/redhat/

hope this helps

Vernard
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