CDs DVDs or netboot. Oh my!

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

Tony Nelson wrote:
> At 7:55 AM -0500 10/22/07, Jon Ciesla wrote:
>>> 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.
>  ...
> 
> It could be explained better, but "askmethod" allows installation of a DVD
> image with only a (or even no) CD drive, as long as the DVD image is made
> available during the install.  I keep mine on C: (sda1,/), but a USB key or
> hard drive would also work.  (I have a DVD drive, and I boot the DVD, but
> one can just burn the RescueCD image that comes with the DVD, at least with
> the torrent).

That's oh so true but askmethod is a long way from "Next, Next, Finish" 
which is the way you'd want to able to tell anyone when they ask "How to 
install Fedora".

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen