best way to install rh9?

[Jacob Schmude]

Hi
I'll probably wind up going with a kickstart file--if I get it wrong the 
first time I'll just have to get it right--grin. Anyhow, what would I have 
to do to patch keyboard.c? It's gonna take a bit to get the 3 iso images, 
so it'll be a little while before I install it.
just out of curiosity: what has rh done to keyboard.c that requires it to 
be patched by hand? I was going to suggest making a patch file, but with 
CVS, that just might not be an option since it changes so rapidly. Maybe 
there's a way for a rh-specific patch to be put into cvs and the install or 
checkout script could decide which one to apply based on a condition, 
possibly the condition of a build number after the kernel version (rh and 
mandrake are the only distros I know of that do this). I mean something 
such as 2.4.20 and 2.4.20-9. Perhaps if the script could determine the 
difference, it could know to apply the 2.4.20 redhat patch to 2.4.20-9, for 
example. Would such a thing be possible?
For now, though, can you send me some instructions on how to hand-patch it, 
what line numbers, what I need to change, etc?
At 22:41 5/7/2003 -0600, you wrote:

>Hi,
>
>      I don't know of a program for verifying a kickstart file.  If your IP
>address is routable, I'd be happy to help you with a telnet installation
>over the phone.  The Speakup keymaps are available in RH9, although there
>a little old.  They'll be fine for an initial installation.  I do
>recommend that you upgrade the kbd package along with the kernel.  Use the
>clean kernel-source-2.4.20-9.i386.rpm from RH to add the CVS version of
>Speakup to.  You'll have to hand patch keyboard.c, Janina or I can help
>with that.