Fedora Users — Re: fedora 3 latest ISO images

David Cary Hart wrote:

On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 03:30:57PM -0500, jim lawrence wrote:

just for curiosity sake, i went to check the date of the ISO for DL 
from redhats site

[   ] FC3-i386-disc1.iso               03-Nov-2004 17:05  617M
[   ] FC3-i386-disc2.iso               03-Nov-2004 17:07  638M
[   ] FC3-i386-disc3.iso               03-Nov-2004 17:08  637M
[   ] FC3-i386-disc4.iso               03-Nov-2004 17:10  386M
[   ] FC3-i386-rescuecd.iso            03-Nov-2004 16:59   76M
[   ] MD5SUM                           03-Nov-2004 18:00  791

Why would i want to DL these and then do 300 + updates after a
install,  why doesn't these ISO's get updated every month?

Are you volunteering to compile and test interim distributions?

I presume the updated RPMs we get with yum/up2date/synaptic/etc. have been compiled and tested individually, and against the most up to date versions of the other packages in the repositories.

On most of my machines, synaptic and yum don't work: no network connection. Even worse, a couple of my friends really like the FC1/Planet CCRMA installations I set up for them, but depend on dial-up modems. I burned FC3 ISO images for them, but the initial update is really painful over a dial-up line.

Is there a way I can collect all updated RPMs on this machine, and create apt-enabled (or yum-enabled) CD image(s) to bring to non-network machines? I don't usually need up-to-date ISO images, but would really like to be able to mirror repositories locally. Rather than releasing the entire updated system, monthly releases of update CD's would be nice.

I know how to use apt-get for download only, but this gets RPMs that don't interface with the package manager properly. Is there a tool to create the additional data that apt/yum need? So far yahoo/google hasn't revealed such a tool, but repository managers must be using one.

In addition, I have a desktop machine which won't boot with FC3 (it does work with FC1/2). I've been told I need to install a 2.6.10 kernel to fix problems with this MB. But If I boot from the rescue disc, I can't unmount it to read from a CD with the kernel RPM on it. I'm planning on solving this problem by pulling the hard drive, and installing it in this machine temporarily.