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.
