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This document describes how to make your own CDs from the Red Hat Linux distribution equivalent to the ones commercially available from Red Hat. The structure of the distribution is described, as well as the procedure needed to include updated RPMS into the distribution. Prerequisites are a good network connection, and a CD-writer.

1. Introduction

2. Anatomy of the Red Hat FTP site

3. RPM packages

4. Obtaining your local copy of the distribution

5. Incorporating the updates

6. At last: burning the CD

• 6.1 Creating a bootable CD

7. Installing from the CD

• 7.1 Booting from a bootable CD

8. Other Linux distributions

9. This document…

• 9.1 Related documentation
• 9.2 Acknowledgements

10. DISCLAIMER

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