Nigel Henry wrote:
Rahul. You are taking issue with my useage of words here. I know that there is
a live CD available, but I'm sure that you were well aware that the complaint
was to do with what was available for previous FC versions. FC6, and prior
versions were available as sets of CDROMS, along with the option of a DVD.
Allright. Perhaps most folks have DVD drives, and in this case there is no
problem. One of my 2 machines has a DVD drive on it, but it's on a IDE PCI
adaptor card, and a DVD won't boot on it. Effectively I'm stuffed if I want
to install from DVD on that machine, but have no problems installing from
CD's
Being on an IDE PCI card doesn't necessarily prevent the connected
device from booting, but perhaps there is some other problem too...
I haven't actually tried this, but I'd guess that if you burn the
boot.iso image to a CD and boot from it, it would let you pick the DVD
as the install source.
I'm sure there are many folks in my situation. I don't want to start some sort
of argument about this, so shall we just end this discussion here.
If you have another machine that can export an NFS share, download the
dvd image to a directory there, boot the boot iso on the target machine,
give it the NFS info and install from there. If you have an external
usb drive big enough to hold the dvd image, that should work too.
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Les Mikesell
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