I need RedHat Linux 7 but can I get it on a DVD?

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FredRdr88

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Does anyone know if there is a service I can hire for money that will burn a DVD of Enterprise RedHat developers. It's about a 4GB download and I can't really handle that large of a download right now. I will try the 400MB version in the meantime, but any help appreciated.

Any way I can get the DVD mailed to me would be great! :)
 
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Why doesn't the install program understand that /home /root, etc.. will ALL be on the same logical partition, or why doesn't it give me a screen to say that? And then /swap will be on a separate swap partition. The program says that I only need two partitions. One for Linux and one swap. So I created two partitions on my hard-drive.
 
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I now realize that if choose "Automatically configure partitioning", that the installation program thinks that I only have 986 kb free of the 298GB I have. I have a completely empty partition other than table information - close to 200 GB. It should just use that space. But it doesn't understand.
 
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I have no idea how to interpret all the information. There are 4 different partitioning schemes: Standard, Btrfs, LVM, and LVM Thin Provisioning. Now I need to read up on that. Then I need to read up on which mount points to choose. I have no idea what is going to happen at that point.
 
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I have now installed the new hard-drive, created an MSDOS partition table on it, and I downloaded the rhel-server-7.2-x86_64-dvd.iso, burned it to a USB flash stick using Rufus 2.15, then booted to that stick and got part way through the beginning of the install, then it hangs up on:

Installing error populating transcation - then it errs out after 10 tries, then it says,

Packages/xdg-utils-1.10-0.16-20120809.git.e17 no arch.rpm or something like what I typed.
anaconda (err no 256] No more mirrors to try.

So I've now erased the USB stick and I'll try to re-rufus it.

Just curious if there are any suggestions what I should do differently?

I do NOT have a DVD drive, hence I've USB'd over the 3.9GB Redhat DVD .iso and burned it to a USB stick, so I can boot
from the stick. Should I NOT create a boot stick? Shouldn't the DVD .iso work on a USB stick or am I wrong?

Is there a command option in Rufus that I need to check? Like dd or something. I haven't yet rerun Rufus - I will do that now.

I chose DD image this time.
 
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Choosing DD only led to about 5MB of files copies although it seemed like an eternity to do it. So obviously, that approach will not work. I have to try something else. And it puts ANACONDA as the volume label of the USB stick. And it uses an EFI directory. I don't yet know what else I can try. I can never find help with Redhat - I don't know where to go. They don't explain how the files are to be used. I assume I can burn the file to a USB flash stick formatted as fat32.
 
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It's now run to completion to the reboot. It installled a bootloader somewhere but I suspect it did it on the 2nd physical drive so I'm still booting back up into Windows. I will need to use some trick to get it to jump over to the Linux drive. This will take many hours as I have to read my notes on this. I will just use the Windows bootloader for now I think. Perhaps I will use LInux's bootloader since it's easier to use that. it will still allow a windows boot.
 
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So I am at the stage where I have a Windows XP installation on one drive and a Redhat Linux 7.2 installation on another drive and I need to configure Linux's bootloader to take over at boot time, so that I can choose either Windows or Redhat Linux.
 
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I had to go into a live CD boot (GParted hung up) and see what the install program had done. I now realize that the install program did NOT do what I told it to do. It created two partitions (not what I manually configured it), one is ext4 for boot, the other is lvm2 pv. and it says that it's all used. Now another problem!
 
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I unplugged the Windows drive and eventually got to a grub screen and I am trying to get started in Redhat but I cannot get past the localhost login screen. I remember the password I set but it never asked me for a username. I have know idea what the username is.
 
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