CDs DVDs or netboot. Oh my!

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

Mike McGrath wrote:
> History: Up until Fedora 7 all RH family products had an install CD that 
> people could download, stick in their drive and install a minimal set of 
> packages or at least specify a method to install from.
> 
> Problem: As of Fedora 7 (and soon with Fedora 8) they cannot do this.  
> The installable live cd can install but not in the traditional sense of 
> what people are used to.  It has no package selection and cannot upgrade.
> 
> Opinion: I believe, in part, this has contributed to the dip in numbers 
> we saw between FC6 and F7.
> 
> Future problem: as of F8 for an individual arch a user could download 
> boot.iso, live cd, installable DVD, and a few respins.  Respins are 
> going to get linked to a spins site, the torrents and public mirrors 
> site will be linked to as well.  So the real question is what do we 
> 'suggest' our default install be?
> 
> 1) Live CD: Can't upgrade, do package selection or specify install method.
> 2) DVD: isn't live (duh :)  but requires DVD burner and drive to do 
> installs.
> 3) boot.iso: a little too advanced for causal users, etc.
> 
> So which one do we link to directly from get-fedora?  The public mirror 
> list will be there as it was in the past.
> 
>    -Mike
> 

Maybe you could co-locate on spins.fedoraproject.org the torrent I've 
set up almost immediately after the CD showed to be a big deal to a big 
number of people:

http://fedora.kanarip.com/torrents/

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Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip

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