The joys of installing RHEL4
I’m just now in the process of installing RHEL4 on a secondary PC here at work, mainly for testing purposes.
I don’t know if there is a DVD version of RHEL. I suppose there is, but I’m stuck with the CD version. Not so bad, one might think.
Au contraire, my friends. While installing the base system went rather smoothly with minimal CD changing efforts, I’m feeling like a very stupid DJ right now. You know, that kind of DJ that always plays the same records over and over again.
That’s pretty much what I’ve been doing for the last half hour or so. I had to install a whole lot of additional packages into RHEL so to use it for development. Oddly enough RHEL cannot install all packages from one CD and then from the next. Oh no. Way to easy. And way to ‘unattended’. I’m asked to switch between CD 2 and CD 3 constantly. At random intervals of course.
Who comes up with those things?
Seriously, this is really bugging the hell out of me. I should have counted the number of times I had to change CDs. I must be close to 50 by now. Moreover, CD 2 seems rather useless. RHEL keeps installing single packages inbetween those coming from CD 3.
