Fedora Core 2 Distribution Size

[Jon Atkinson]

I think therefore it might be a good idea to make this more prominent 
then. On the download page (http://fedora.redhat.com/download/#boot) the 
diskette images are mentioned, but maybe a few small changes should be 
made, to explain to users the _advantages_ of using diskette images. I 
think the fact this feature and installation method exists should be 
trumpeted to users as loudly as possible; surely the bandwidth savings 
(for both redhat.com and its mirrors) would be fairly large. I don't see 
any disadvantages to this, unless I'm missing something obvious in which 
case I await correction ;-)

As an aside, does anyone have access to the download statistics for the 
images? I'd be interested to see a few figures :-)

--Jon Atkinson

Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 18:41, Jim Cornette wrote:
> 
>>Jeremy Katz wrote:
>>I've done the floppy install (series of 4 floppies) of Debian before.  I 
>>liked the network install, though Debian didn't meet my particular 
>>needs. I also downloaded and burned a whole series of CDROMs and it only 
>>used the first CD. (A big waste, but a learning experience).  I think 
>>that their other concept of selecting desired programs that then create 
>>your customized installations is a good approach, if dependencies could 
>>be met through the selector.
>>
>>It might serve Fedora to have such a capability, though it sounds like 
>>it would be a nightmare to implement successfully.
> 
> 
> It's there.  If you boot with the floppy image (boot.img + drvnet.img
> from the images/ directory), then you can do an ftp install with just 2
> floppies instead of four :)
> 
> 
>>Instead of the installation option being kind of hidden, it would be 
>>nice to see it available as a choice when the first disc booted up. 
>>Alternatively, a credit card  model with just ftp / http installation 
>>starting might be a good idea. I heard mention of a boot.iso, so it must 
>>already exist and is or can be offered within the regular directory that 
>>contains the usual 6 discs. ( rpms, srpms)
> 
> 
> I don't see how this is hidden...  If you boot with regular CDs, then
> the right thing to do is go ahead and use them because that's what the
> 99% case is going to want.  You can bypass the autocd detection (boot
> with 'linux askmethod') -- all of this is in the syslinux help screens
> :/  
> 
> boot.iso is located in the images/ directory and is an approximately 4
> meg image that you can burn to CD and start an install with.  Maybe
> putting it in the isos directory instead of just the tree would help
> raise the visibility here.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jeremy
> 
> 
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