----- Original Message ---- From: Nigel Henry <cave.dnb@xxxxxxxxxx> To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 4:34:43 PM Subject: Re: Where are the Fedora 7 CD ISOs 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. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Of course Nigel, you can't win. We can't win. It has been explained before. Take a look at the thread https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2007-June/msg00103.html how many people have argued and no winners. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2007-June/thread.html But as Rahul has posted PCTech101 has created the traditional CD's and one is free to get them from there. http://www.pctech101.com/proddetail.php?prod=fed7med and The CD's that you are currently downloading thanks to Mr. John Reiser. http://bitwagon.com:6969/torrents/F-7-i386-disc1.iso.torrent Regards, Antonio ____________________________________________________________________________________ 8:00? 8:25? 8:40? Find a flick in no time with the Yahoo! Search movie showtime shortcut. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#news
