[H-GEN] Redhat 7.3 Media Failure

[Tony Nugent]

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On Wed Aug 21 2002 at 10:59, Conor Cunningham wrote:

 [ ... strange problems installing packages ... ]

> The CD's are from different sources and have tested various ones using
> different ISO's from different sites. Some more research has revealed
> some interesting information for anyone who is interested.
> 
> https://www.redhat.com/mailing-lists/redhat-install-list/msg18616.html

(There's come good information in this URL, thanks for it).

> Apparantly this problem has been experienced by several people, and not
> just me.
> 
> If and when I find a solution i'll post it here incase any of you have
> this problem.

That's very interesting... md5 checksum problems?  (weird).

For what it is worth, and perhaps this may be useful for people here
who do use redhat...

It is possible to rebuild the redhat installation disks to include
updates and do whatever other customisations you may want.  I've
written an unofficial howto...

	http://www.linuxworks.com.au/redhat-installer-howto.html

It needs some updates... for example, if you use the latest redhat
kernel package for rh73 then make sure you initially use lilo rather
than grub (or else the new installation won't boot properly).  I've
also been given some updates to some of the scripts I've gathered
there (one of which does gpg/md5 checks on the rpm repository).
(Please don't look too closely at the homepage, not that there is
much to see... I so badly need to make some substantial updates to
it :)

Cheers
Tony

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