Fedora Unity releases updated Fedora 8 Re-Spin

Jeroen van Meeuwen kanarip at kanarip.com
Wed Apr 2 12:33:34 UTC 2008


The Fedora Unity Project is proud to announce the release of new ISO 
Re-Spins (DVD and CD Sets) of Fedora 8.

These Re-Spin ISOs are based on the officially released Fedora 8 
installation media and include all updates released as of March 31st, 2008.
The ISO images are available for i386, x86_64 and PPC architectures via 
Jigdo starting Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008.

We have included CD Image sets for those in the Fedora community that do 
not have DVD drives or burners available.

During the Testing phase the following was found:

1) a full x86_64 install with many optional packages or languages 
requires at least 768MB of RAM rather than the recommended 512MB.

2) the ftp utility in rescue mode will not work (missing 
libreadline.so.5) -which doesn't affect FTP installations.

With this particular Re-Spin, we address the following problems 
experienced by many community members, in addition to the problems we've 
resolved in previous Re-Spins[1]:

- #420281, Cannot find kickstart file during unattended installation
The kickstart file name searched for after booting from CD or DVD with 
option "linux ks" and using a dhcp and nfs server is wrong.

We would like to give a special thanks to the following for testing this 
respin in 2 days

- Harley-D 		Dana Hoffman Jr
- zcat 			Jason Farrell
- iWolf			Jeffrey Tadlock
- baard1973		S.A. Hartsuiker
- Southern_Gentleman 	Ben Williams
- kanarip 		Jeroen van Meeuwen

Fedora Unity has taken up the Re-Spin task to provide the community with 
the chance to install Fedora with recent updates already included.
These updates might otherwise comprise more than 1.33GiB of downloads 
for a full install.

This is a community project, for and by the community. You can 
contribute to the community by joining our test process.

A full list of bugs, packages and changelogs that have been updated in 
this Re-Spin can be reviewed on 
http://spins.fedoraunity.org/changelogs/20080331/

Go to http://spins.fedoraunity.org/spins to get the bits!

If you are interested in helping with the testing or mirroring efforts, 
please contact the Fedora Unity team.
Contact information is available at http://fedoraunity.org/ or the 
#fedora-unity channel on the Freenode IRC Network (irc.freenode.net).
To report bugs in the Re-Spins please use http://bugs.fedoraunity.org/

Kind regards,

The Fedora Unity Team

[1] 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2007-December/msg00008.html




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