It's a good idea to verify the md5sums after transferring the iso's. Red Hat lists them on the same page with the downloads. Generate local ones like md5sum filename > filename.md5 and compare to the originals. I've seen a number of cd's that failed md5sum comparisons, but 'sort of' worked. On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Taylor, ForrestX wrote: > duncan wrote: > > So I want to pull-down new ISO images, and extract them directly on my > > Linux server dedicated to kickstart, but I don't know how to expand the > > ISO images on linux. > > Use the `-o loop` option to mount: > > mount -o loop whatever.iso /mnt/iso > > (/mnt/iso must be a directory--you can change this to any directory) > > Then you can copy the files to the place that you want: > > cp -a /mnt/iso/* /redhat/ > cp .discinfo /redhat/ > > Repeat these three steps for each of the three CDs. > > Forrest > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jim Wildman, CISSP, RHCE jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.rossberry.com
