Although several distros of Linux are available and even Latest versions of Fedora are available for free download, in many academic and Engineering institutions and for R&D purposes, most of us still prefer Red Hat 9.
Red Hat 9 can, at present only be downloaded from Red Hat archive site. Other than that it nearly impossible to acquire one until one of your friend has a faithful copy of it.
Version 9 cannot be downloaded from the Red Hat ftp site. It can however be downloaded from the following location:
ftp://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/iso/i386/
There are 3 CDs available in ISO format. You need to download them and burn them onto CDs using an ISO burning utility such as [ISO burner or Nero]
The direct link for x86 machine are:
ftp://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/iso/i386/shrike-i386-disc1.iso
ftp://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/iso/i386/shrike-i386-disc2.iso
ftp://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/iso/i386/shrike-i386-disc3.iso
Official details on ” How to Download Red Hat Installation Files ” can be found here
Though the above links are official, Red Hat does not give any technical support for issues with the downloads available in Red Hat archive FTP site
Farther as these are huge downloads, it is obvious that you use a download manager such as GetRight, Download Accelerator, or if you are using Mozilla Firefox, try using DownloadThemAll. But I recommend using the latest version of GetRight .
Using a download manager to download Red Hat Linux 9.0
Here I illustrate using Getright
>> copy one of the links above
>> click on the Getright tray icon, and click on enter new url to download, paste the link there
>> on the next screen click on Save and select the save location.
>> when prompted for password, don’t worry, enter anonymous as user ID and your e-mail ID (eg. john@yahoo.com) as password.
Thats all there is.
With good Internet connection there should be no problem downloading.
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