Michael,

On Mon, 16 May 2005, Michael Mansour wrote:

> Hi Connie/Troy,
> 
> I use Michael Fratoni's whichcd:
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/whichcd
> 
> on various machines. It does similar to the whichcd.py script supplied by RH
> (which we've discussed earlier), but on a much larger scale, as it includes
> various distributions which can be queried, not just the distribution it's
> running on.
> 
> I'm looking at getting whichcd to support SL3/4, and Michael Fratoni is happy
> to add support for it. I asked him what I need for him to support it and below
> is his reply.
> 
> I don't have all the CD's myself, so thought maybe you could help out and send
> him what he needs?
> 
> If not, please let me know and I'll endeavour to get him the info.

You can download the iso images and loopback mount them with

mount -o loop <isoname>

The rpms are in /SL/RPMS/

-Connie Sieh

> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Michael.
> 
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> From: Michael Fratoni <[log in to unmask]>
> To: "Michael Mansour" <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Fri, 13 May 2005 06:41:16 -0400
> Subject: Re: ScientificLinux 3/4 support for whichcd
> 
> On Thursday 12 May 2005 23:54, you wrote:
> > Hi Michael,
> >
> > I'm just wondering. What do I have to provide you to support SL3/4 in
> > whichcd?
> 
> Hi Michael,
> A listing of the .rpms and .srpms on each disk, for example:
> "ls /mnt/cdrom/*/*/RPMS > disk1.out"
> and the contents of the equivalent of /etc/redhat-release should do the 
> trick.
> 
> I'm long overdue for a new release, so if you send them, I'll get it 
> updated.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Michael
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