{"id":585,"date":"2009-04-06T18:38:10","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T22:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/2009\/04\/06\/red-hat-9\/"},"modified":"2009-04-06T18:38:10","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T22:38:10","slug":"red-hat-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/2009\/04\/06\/red-hat-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Hat 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a Red Hat 9 server that I have to support for a wee while longer. I needed to install some packages and I didn&#8217;t have the original install CD&#8217;s nor access to Red Hat&#8217;s repositories.<\/p>\n<p>After lot&#8217;s and lot&#8217;s of searching I found the ISO images at:<br \/>\n<a title=\"Red Hat's FTP server\" href=\"ftp:\/\/archive.download.redhat.com\/pub\/redhat\/linux\/9\/en\/iso\/i386\/\"> ftp:\/\/archive.download.redhat.com\/pub\/redhat\/linux\/9\/en\/iso\/i386\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But, there&#8217;s too many users on Red Hat&#8217;s FTP server and I can&#8217;t get access &#8230; thankfully rpmfind.net have a mirror:<br \/>\n<a title=\"Red hat Mirror at RPMFind. net\" href=\"http:\/\/fr.rpmfind.net\/linux\/redhat\/9\/en\/iso\/i386\/a\"> http:\/\/fr.rpmfind.net\/linux\/redhat\/9\/en\/iso\/i386\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So now I can download the ISO images, and mount them on the Linux box using the loop-back interface and install the packages I need.<\/p>\n<p>I expect to have new hardware within a month or so, and I&#8217;ll probably be using <a title=\"BU Linux\" href=\"http:\/\/linux.bu.edu\/\">BU Linux<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/releases.ubuntu.com\/8.04\/\">Ubuntu 8.04<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a Red Hat 9 server that I have to support for a wee while longer. I needed to install some packages and I didn&#8217;t have the original install CD&#8217;s nor access to Red Hat&#8217;s repositories. After lot&#8217;s and lot&#8217;s of searching I found the ISO images at: ftp:\/\/archive.download.redhat.com\/pub\/redhat\/linux\/9\/en\/iso\/i386\/ But, there&#8217;s too many users &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/2009\/04\/06\/red-hat-9\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Red Hat 9<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,22,34,41],"tags":[348,390,452,514,515],"class_list":["post-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bu-linux","category-linux","category-red-hat-linux","category-ubuntu-linux-2","tag-iso","tag-linux","tag-old","tag-red-hat","tag-red-hat-9"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}