Re: Where are the Fedora 7 CD ISOs

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On Friday 22 June 2007 22:39, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Nigel Henry wrote:
> > On Friday 22 June 2007 21:43, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >> Nigel Henry wrote:
> >>> On Friday 22 June 2007 21:02, bdk@xxxxxx wrote:
> >>>> Some of the systems I need to upgrade from FC 5/6 to Fedora 7 do not
> >>>> have a DVD drive. In the past there was a set of 4 or 5 CDs that one
> >>>> used to upgrade. Do these ISO images still exist for Fedora 7?  I see
> >>>> a KDE and Gnome(?) live ISOs but no full distribution.
> >>>>
> >>>> If so where are they?
> >>>>
> >>>> If not how does one go from FC5/6 to Fedora 7 without a DVD drive?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> ....Brian Kaye
> >>>> ....
> >>>
> >>> There are no CD iso's available. Full stop. Whoever decided that should
> >>> have thought folks with no DVD ROM drives.
> >>
> >> Incorrect and misleading. Live CD images are installable. You can do a
> >> network installation from the boot.iso or rescue CD images. You can also
> >> copy the DVD image to a hard disk and install from the boot/rescue CD
> >> image.
> >>
> >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora7/FAQ
> >>
> >> Rahul
> >
> > I did not mention Live CD images.
>
> Again, you did clearly mention that no CD iso's were available which is
> not true.
>
> Previous versions of Fedora were available
>
> > as both sets of CD's, along with the option of a DVD. Surely it's not
> > such a big deal to make sets of CD's available along with a DVD.
>
> Additional variations of any sort in the releases have a cost associated
> with it. There is additional testing or mirror space they require for
> example. All the mirrors are voluntary and will push back if you
> duplicate the same packages in several different formats.
>
> Rahul

I'll drop out of this discussion, as it's like trying to reason with a 
politition. A no win situation.

Nigel.


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