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

[andy]

"Dunlap, Randy" wrote:

> 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

I purchased Redhat 6.0 for $6 including s/h from Linux Mall
it came in 2 days regular snail mail. About the same time it would have
taken me to download the ISO image at 56k.

Andy
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