On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 22:16, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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>
