-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 John Summerfield wrote: | David Boles wrote: | |> Gee. Sorry. I was just trying to help you and your friend. And I did |> offer |> a reasonable solution. A way to make a CD set from an existing, already |> downloaded, official, Fedora 8 DVD and official Fedora 8 updated packages |> downloaded from official Fedora mirrors into a CD set of Fedora. Even if |> you did *not* have a local DVD source this would make the CD isos without |> that. And Jigdo, bluntly, is so simple to use that anyone that *thinks* |> that they can use Linux should be able to do it. |> |> But what you want is a DVD with CD isos for everyone instead of an |> installable DVD iso that I, and many, many others, could use with out the |> magic, smoke, and mirrors. No thanks. | | That is my proposal. See my first email in this thread. | | Specifically, why is it a bad idea? The reason CDs were dropped was, as I understood it, to give the mirrors a space break. DVD and not a duplicate package set on 5 CDs. You are proposing two DVDs. One a 'real' DVD and one a DVD made of 5 CDs isos. Sounds to me like the same thing. You, or someone, proposed an install DVD made up from 5 CD isos? When I see the Anaconda that will do that reliably I might support it. |> And I think that it makes more sense the way it is now than with the hair |> brained CD isos in a DVD iso solution that you propose. |> |> BTW - While I was preparing dinner I started this 'process' and I am |> currently working on the fifth, there are five total in the set, CD iso. |> If you had not been such a hard a$$ you could had CDs to hand to your |> friend by tomorrow at the latest. | | So what? I've been using Linux for a decade or so, but I don't think it | should be as hard for others as it's been for me. I've been using and | recommending jigdo for around half that time. | See | http://www.redhat.com/archives/phoebe-list/2003-January/thread.html#00226 | - it's just gone five years old. | | I'm not proposing a solution to a problem _I_ find insurmountable. I'm | proposing a solution to a problem I see as being fairly wide-spread. I | have here seven Pentium IVs and later that came without DVD drives. All | are suitable for running Linux, and several do. I have been using Linux since late 1998 or early 1999. Linux today is no where near as difficult to use as it was then. I came from OS/2 Warp. That was *difficult* to configure. After using OS/2 Linux, again using, was easy to configure. Except for all of the hardware that was not yet supported. The software that would crash. A KDE version update of almost any kind was a sure disaster. Todays Linux, with a lot of work done by good people is IMO easy to install and configure. Your 'mate' should get the LIVE-CD. That's what they're for, to try before you buy. Somethings might be missing. But not much. And it does install. - -- ~ David -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (MingW32) iEYEARECAAYFAkeWycwACgkQAO0wNI1X4QGaCwCg5XuEsHxSAzjDYboidiyPhSAh 5OYAn1wjgb49OQ8GB3iT/5XBLdBtE/eP =wT1Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
