CDs DVDs or netboot. Oh my!

Jon Ciesla limb at jcomserv.net
Mon Oct 22 12:55:03 UTC 2007


> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Upgrades from F7 to F8 using LiveCD's. Not being able to upgrade to F8
>>> using *just* CDs.
>>
>> Now we are talking about an actual problem which wasn't clear to me
>> earlier. So if Fedora Project released regular CD's for this release and
>> makes live upgrades a supported option from Fedora 9 onwards, do you see
>> any need for a regular CD variant in the future?
>>
>
> Other then for it's sentimental value, the impressive number of discs
> for the Everything spin or laptop-in-the-bush cases, there's no real
> need for CD's. The few people that want a customized install with all
> kinds of exotic partitioning schemes (or minimal installs) should either
> be able to create CDs off the DVD iso or get the CDs from any third
> party providing them.

A: I have not DVD drives.

B: So we'll be providing links to "official" 3rd parties who provide CDs,
then?

C: By the time I can create a CD set for F-8 from remote mirrors with
Revisor, F-9 will be at Test3. . .

Jon

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