Redhat.fedora site Not Noobie Friendly!

Ian McKinnon ian at innisfree.net
Sat Mar 26 06:44:29 UTC 2005


Question on FC4 / 1
I noticed that the versioning on FC4 / 1 was 3.9x.  Before I install I just
wanted to check if yum will version it up to FC4 standard when it goes gold?
Asking because I just want to install once and not have to re-upgrade off
DVD when it goes gold.

Thanks!  Ian


On 3/25/05 9:24 PM, "David Curry" <dsccable at comcast.net> wrote:

> jim lawrence wrote:
> 
>> I have noticed that on the main page of the fedora download site there
>> are no instructions on how to burn a ISO image or what iso files a
>> user would need ot download. Who can I email so that these simple
>> instructions can be added to the download page so that the newest of
>> noobies  would have to read it; before or at least pop it at them
>> stating that if your going to do this then you need theses or if that
>> you need this.  etc... I ran a search on fedoraforum.org   187
>> possible hits to "burn ISO"   if you try cant boot from install CD its
>> around 500 hits. Seems to me that idea of how to burn a ISO image
>> isn't getting to the public. People especially noobies just don't
>> know. they heard of linux so its the "i'll download it and install it"
>> mean while they are lost after they spent 4 hours downloading iso
>> images and waste 4 cds because they didn't know any better. WE as a
>> COMMUNITY need to get the idea out that "HEY THIS IS HOW YOU DO THIS"
>> Before the person who wants to try a different OS gets frustrated and
>> gives up.
>>  
>> 
> Jim, have you seen http://fedora.redhat.com/download/ ?
> 





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