On Mon, Feb 26, 2001, Arieh Bibliowicz wrote about "Distributions":
> Hi there! I want to download RH7 from the iglu ftp, and there are like 8
> ISOs... can anyone tell me which is for wat (some are easy...) I attach the
> list:
>
> 7.0-i386-disc1.iso
> 7.0-i386-disc2.iso
You don't need these two - use respin instead (re-spin is an updated
version of Redhat 7, especially regarding the installation procedure).
In my opinion, these two files can be removed from the ftp site.
> 7.0-i386-docs-8bit.iso
You probably won't need this - the standard installation already installs
manual pages. Perhaps you'll need this if you're looking for more significant
documentation, and don't mind the extra day it will take you to download
another 650MB (!) from iglu...
> 7.0-i386-powertools.iso
If you can spare a CD and download time, I recommend you get powertools too.
Powertools are extra packages that Redhat considers less "canonical" than
what it includes in the standard install, but many are still useful and very
easy to install. For example, you'll find there openMotif (a graphic library
you may need for some applications), ddd (the best debugger UI for Linux,
in my opinion), curl, bsd-games, a2ps, bitchx, bsd-games, cam, gnat,
mailman, nethack, povray. If you don't know what most of these are, get
a bigger hard disk, install them all, and see for yourself :)
> 7.0-i386-respin-disc1.iso
> 7.0-i386-respin-disc2.iso
This ones you should definitely get - you must have these two CDs in order
to install Redhat 7 (the second one is NOT optional, and doesn't contain "less
imporant" stuff, although it does contain much less stuff than the first).
> 7.0-i386-respin-SRPMS.iso
> 7.0-i386-SRPMS.iso
These are the sources of everything. Unless you really need them (or don't
care about the download time and media cost), don't get them.
> 7.0-i386-upgrade.iso
I have no idea what that one is, or what it upgrades from. Don't get it.
Also, DONT FORGET TO DOWNLOAD ALL THE UPDATES from redhat, which are
not included above! Without that, your system will be full of security
holes like a sieve. This advice is not specific to Redhat 7 - it's true
for every distribution out there, because since Redhat 7 came out people
found serious security holes in many basic packages.
It's possible to mirror Redhat's update directory, and even automatically
(using mkisofs) create an .iso out of them - does the iglu ftp have that?
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