1. Introduction There may be several reasons for making your own CDs. Perhaps you're a
cheapskate and want to save the cost of the
Red Hat distribution. Or, perhaps
you want to include in your CDs the latest distribution with all the current
updates. This is highly relevant, because after each major release of the
Red Hat distribution, there have been loads of updates, several of which
are security related. Just take a look at the
errata page.
Or maybe you want to customize the default installation adding a few
packages not present in the default tree and unselecting the installation
of some packages which are otherwise included in the default setup.
This is what you will be taught in the next sections (hopefully). I will use the
i386 architecture and releases 7.3, 8.0 and 9 of the distribution in the examples. The
notes related to the previous releases (<=6.1) were contained in a previous version of
this document and were compiled by the original authors. The notes related to release
6.2 are based on tests I've not completed (and I don't know if I ever will) and some
documents you can find linked in the Related documentation section.
The procedure given in the following sections for RedHat 7.3 and 8.0 is likely to work
on all platforms supported by Red Hat (Alpha, ppc, etc.), for all the 7.x (and maybe 8.x/9
in a not too far future) releases, but I have only tested it on the i386 platform with
Redhat Linux 7.3, 8.0 and 9 (I would be interested in additional information).
 | The operations described have legal implications, meaning you cannot
redistribute the CDs as RedHat Linux if you modify them in ways not compliant to
Redhat trademark policy. To make them legally redistributable, you should always
comply with the guidelines stated on the
RedHat website
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| Always remember to set the variables in the rhcd.conf file
and export the RHCDPATH environment
variable before running the scripts you will find throughout the rest of this
document and related to releases >=6.2 of RedHat Linux. An example
rhcd.conf file, which should
be well commented, is provided with the scripts.
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1.1. Disclaimer and License This document is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Neither the author nor the distributors, or any other contributor of this
document are in any way responsible for physical, financial, moral or any
other type of damage incurred by following the suggestions in this text.
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