thanks for clearing that up, you were the only one who replied.


On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Matt Drew wrote:

> 
> On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Justin Zygmont wrote:
> 
> > Did Redhat just replace RH 6.9 with 7.0 lately or something?  This is
> > crazy, I could only get the images for 6.9 (didn't know there was such a
> > thing) from all of the mirrors, and the install would fail.  Now, today,
> > I downloaded a new image and they're all 7.0.  They were in the right
> > directories but would say 6.9 when I would boot up with them.  Also I wish
> > it would say somewhere what update-disk-2001009.img really was; it just
> > seems to be an updated drivers disk..
> 
> update-disk-2001009.img is an Anaconda update disk, which contains various
> fixes for the Anaconda installer.  You can use it by writing the .img to a
> floppy disk (using dd or rawrite), and booting the installation with:
> 
> linux updates
> 
> at the initial LILO boot: prompt. You will be prompted during the Anaconda
> boot up to insert the updates disk.  The descriptions of these files are
> usually on the Errata pages (www.redhat.com/errata, among others).
> 
> Red Hat 6.9 (I think the most common was 6.93) was the Red Hat Linux 7
> beta, code-named Pinstripe.  There are probably a mix of various releases,
> all labeled 7.0 (since it was the beta for 7).  The latest 7 ISO image
> should look something like this (from our FTP site):
> 
> -rw-r--r--   1 19387 root 675749888 Oct 11 23:59 7.0-respin-disc1.iso
> -rw-r--r--   1 19387 root 677206016 Oct 11 23:59 7.0-respin-disc2.iso
> 
> The respin fixed the rhnsd bug, which was deemed important enough to do a
> re-issue of the ISO image.
> 
> Matt
> 
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> Red Hat Consumer Services
> 
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