best way to install rh9?

[Thomas D. Ward]

Hi, Jacob. Do you want a kickstart file? I do have one that you can modify
to fit your needs.

----- Original Message -----
From: Jacob Schmude <jacobs at surferie.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 3:10 PM
Subject: Re: best way to install rh9?


> 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.
>