Do we need split media CDs for F12?

Jussi Lehtola jussilehtola at fedoraproject.org
Sat Jun 13 16:04:12 UTC 2009


On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 09:34 -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch at dell.com> said:
> > CDs had their place, back when DVD readers weren't commonplace, and
> > before we had LiveCD/LiveUSB medias. Now, DVDs are fairly common, the
> > LiveCDs work great for a lot of installs, and we have both a small
> > (158MB) network-based bootable CD installer for new installs that
> > would require a CD, and preupgrade for upgrading from an older distro
> > version to the next. Let's kill off split media CDs for Fedora 12.
> > 
> > Your thoughts?
> 
> Sounds good to me.  Keep the LiveCDs and netboot CD and remove the other
> CD images.

Hmm, I'd want netboot.img back, since I normally use a USB stick to
start the network install (OK, there is the possibility of using
livecd-iso-to-disk, but that's a lot more hassle than downloading a
minimalistic img and running dd).
-- 
Jussi Lehtola
Fedora Project Contributor
jussilehtola at fedoraproject.org




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