[ale] Upgrading to RH6.0 w/o the cost

[Irv]

On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, S. Eric Asberry wrote:

> Jeffery B Layton wrote:
> 
> > GPL CDs (around $5). My question is, do I just use these CD's
> > as I would the normal CD's with the expensive RH? If so, do
> > they come with a Boot Disk, and if not, is it easy to make one
> > for RH6.0?
> 
> I bought mine from www.cheapbytes.com for less than $10.  I received a
> bootable CD which I installed fresh on a machine at home.  I used the
> same CD to upgrade a previously installed (by someone other than myself)
> RedHat 5.1 installation at work.  Both worked flawlessly.
> 
> Of course, if your system doesn't support booting from the CD-ROM drive
> (which may be what you were getting at) you will probably need to create
> a boot floppy yourself (at least, the CD I got from cheapbytes.com
> didn't include a floppy). ....

I just ordered Mandrake, Slack, and SuSE from www.cheapbytes.com. 
Cheapbytes has given *extremely* good service in the past, so I'm
looking forward to trying these distros. Slack, at least the previous
version, can be booted from the cd, and also has a dos-readable 
directory with boot images, rawrite, etc.. that you need if you 
can't boot a CD directly. Don't know if this is the case in the
4.0 version.   Mandrake was $1.99, Slack 3.99, and the full
Suse package $34.95. That's cheaper than the coffee it would
take to stay awake thru all those downloads.

Irv