----- Original Message ----- From: "Erik Hemdal" <ehemdal@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 9:08 PM Subject: Re: Distribution method - could there be a better way? > > > > > This works nicely if you have an Internet connection that you can > dedicate for an installation. I discovered that Windows XP does this on > a fresh installation from CD. It was neat to see the installer skip the > old bits in the CAB and get updated drivers over the network. > > But if I had a slow connection, I think this would prevent me from > installing Fedora. There's something to be said for having a set of CDs > or a DVD that one can use to install or reinstall without any "outside > help". > > Call me old fashioned, but I like the security of having physical media > around for when things go very wrong. Erik Another point for having physical media is installing Fedora on more than one computer. I do have a desktop duel boot Fedora/Windows and I have a laptop running Fedora. I don't generally connect my laptop to the internet and use basically what is on the original media unless there is updates that I absolutely need. Which in alot of cases does not happen because it does not run any server services like apache, sendmail, postfix, etc and is used as a simple desktop operating system for Office work, reading notes while traveling, and things like that. I would hate to have to do a internet install on not one but two computers on a dial up connection. Especially, in the case of the notebook which many of the security updates do not always apply to me personally.
