creat a bootable DVD from RHEL rar file

p_miar · 04-22-2010, 03:23 AM

I got RHEL4 U4 i386 AS DVD.rar file and i tried to burn it via MajicISO to DVD.
I made it bootable by ...\Image\boot.iso and then burn it.

But when I tried to boot from DVD, it didn't boot at all.

please help me.

smoker · 04-22-2010, 04:29 AM

Use centos instead.

It's free, unlike the rar file you've got.

RedHat would never distribute their software as rar files because linux doesn't have rar, it's proprietary.

http://centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=15

Centos is an unbranded version of RHEL, with updates and you can get the latest version ie RHEL5, except it will be called Centos 5

p_miar · 04-23-2010, 02:28 AM

I already have centOS, but i cant install oracle 10g on it.

I need to instal GeoFrame 4.4, and this software could be installed just on RHEL 4.4.

The person gave the rar file to me has a dvd, i think if he take a iso image of the dvd the problem will be solved.

ncsuapex · 04-23-2010, 08:15 AM

For the record there is a unrar package available for CentOS and I suspect other distros as well.

yum info unrar
Available Packages
Name : unrar
Arch : x86_64
Version: 3.9.4
Release: 1.el5.rf
Size : 108 k
Repo : rpmforge
Summary: Extract, test and view RAR archives
Description:
The unRAR utility is a freeware program, distributed with source code
and developed for extracting, testing and viewing the contents of
archives created with the RAR archiver version 1.50 and above.