Redhat 9 -- where is "download"?

[William Park]

On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 11:50:32AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 11:21:23AM -0400, William Park wrote:
> > I went to <www.redhat.com>, and it is marketing frontend and clicking
> > hell.  If you need to download packages (included in CD, or subsequent
> > updates) for Redhat 7, 8, or 9, where do you get them from?
> 
> I thought they had been gone for long enough to not even have support
> anymore by now.  They might still be on the ftp server, but then again
> they might not be.
> 
> It seems a quick peek at the ftp server says it is all there, even back
> to the really old versions.
> 
> ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/
> ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/9/en/


Me no see wood; damned trees are in my way!  Thanks, Lennart.

These are kernel stuffs:

    kernel-2.4.20-8.athlon.rpm           13535  KB  03/13/03  00:00:00
    kernel-2.4.20-8.i586.rpm             13366  KB  03/13/03  00:00:00
    kernel-2.4.20-8.i686.rpm             13567  KB  03/13/03  00:00:00
    kernel-BOOT-2.4.20-8.i386.rpm        6279   KB  03/13/03  00:00:00
    kernel-bigmem-2.4.20-8.i686.rpm      14131  KB  03/13/03  00:00:00
    kernel-doc-2.4.20-8.i386.rpm         1759   KB  03/13/03  00:00:00
    kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.31-13.i386.rpm  301    KB  02/24/03  00:00:00
    kernel-smp-2.4.20-8.athlon.rpm       14009  KB  03/13/03  00:00:00
    kernel-smp-2.4.20-8.i686.rpm         14123  KB  03/13/03  00:00:00
    kernel-source-2.4.20-8.i386.rpm      37741  KB  03/13/03  00:00:00
    kernel-utils-2.4-8.29.i386.rpm       229    KB  02/24/03  00:00:00

I'm downloading 
    kernel-BOOT-2.4.20-8.i386.rpm
right now.

Sorry for more newbie questions:

    - Does each RPM includes kernel .config file?  I need to patch the
      kernel and compile.

    - '-8' suffix.  Does it indicate it was compiled 8 times?  Or, does
      it mean 8 patches were applied?  I heard that RedHat applies
      kernel patches, in order to vendor lockin.

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