Re: DVD iso

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On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 22:16, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
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> It would appear that on Aug 20, Paul Howarth did say:
> 
> > On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 14:01, Lew Bloch wrote:
> > > I prefer just to download Fedora as the CD-based distro and install it 
> > > from CD.
> > 
> > By "cd based distro" s/he means a single-CD distribution (e.g. Knoppix),
> > that you can boot into straight off CD *without needing to install it*.
> 
> Pardon me Paul, But I would have thought that when Lew said:
> "download Fedora as the CD-based distro" That he was talking about the
> cd based iso images of Fedora rather than the dvd based images.

That's what Lew was saying, but I was referring to an earlier reply,
which Lew had quoted:
> > Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 20:21:03 -0700
> > From: RoboticGolem <roboticgolem@xxxxxxxxx>
>  > Even then, you could download a cd based distro that copies itself
to
>  > ram and use it to burn your dvd.iso.

This posting was clearly referring to a Knoppix-like "Live CD" type of
distribution, so I was trying to clarify that for Lew.

> That is
> for Fedora Core 2, go to a fedora mirror such as:
> ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/fedora.redhat/linux/core/2/i386/iso
> and download:
> FC2-i386-disc1.iso & FC2-i386-disc2.iso & FC2-i386-disc3.iso &
> FC2-i386-disc4.iso
> And Burn them with a "CD RW drive" [No DVD RW drive required]

I was under the impression that Lew had already downloaded the DVD ISO
(which turned out not to be the case), in which case the Knoppix
solution would have been faster - only one CD.

> Of course, if Knoppix includes support for burning dvd images, which
> wouldn't surprise me, then putting the dvd image files on the windows
> machine with the dvd burner and booting it with Knoppix to use it's linux
> software would only require burning 1 reusable Knoppix cd, and getting
> familiar enough with it to burn the dvd's on the "windows" machine.
> The advantage being that when he wants to burn the next release of
> Fedora via dvd image, or any other dvd image, he would already have the
> Knoppix cd.
> 
> Personaly I'm quite happy to use CD iso images, and dread the day when
> "CD" images of Fedora may be discontinued due to the majority having
> upgraded to dvd-burners... 

I'm sure people would find workarounds for that, much like they do
already for the absence of an FC2 boot floppy.

Cheers, Paul.
-- 
Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>



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