srpms ???

Scot L. Harris webid at cfl.rr.com
Fri Feb 11 20:05:55 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 15:00, money69 wrote:
> I think I screwed up and downloaded the wrong ISO files for Fedora 3.  I have these 'FC3-i386-SRPMS-disc*.iso' files and burned them to a CD but they didn't work when I tried to install Fedora from a fresh boot.  
> Obviously this is not the normal installation files with installer starting up from a boot.  Is there a way I can make these the normal install package? (The binaries I guess?)  Or do I have to download the right files this time? :-? 

You downloaded the source rpm iso files not the install isos.

In theory if you had a machine that could compile the code on those isos
you could end up with a bootable version.

However, it will be much easier to download the correct ISO files and
burn those to CD.  
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