Website info request

[Henry Hartley]

On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 at 11:49 AM, Age said:
>> 
>> I want to start using Linux and at this stage Fedora is the one I
>> would like to give a try.
>> 
>> When browsing the website I found that 2 important things are
>> missing:
>> 
>> - Package info
>> I wasn't able to find a page which gave me some info about what
>> each disc actually contains. Are all 4 disc necessary to be able
>> to install Fedora? Since the distribution is 4 disc big in total,
>> providing this info might reduce the amount of downloads if not
>> all disc are realy necessary.

You can see a list of packages:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/os/Fedora
/RPMS/

although that won't tell you what is on which CD.  A minimal install
doesn't require all the CDs but you're probably better off just biting
the bullet and getting them all.

>> - Support
>> There is no obvious location on the site with support info. I'm
>> not even sure this mailing list is the one I should send this
>> stuff to. A page with at least mailing list info would be handy
>> to have.

Information on the various mailing lists is here:
http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/communicate/

Pick a mailing list from that page and you'll get, among other things, a
link to the list archives.  This does seem like the right one for
questions of this sort.

>> At this stage there aren't any docs available about how to
>> install/use Fedora, only docs about how to write docs, am I
>> right?  This was a bit confusing to me.  It might be usefull
>> to say this on the website to prevent people from getting
>> confused or to prevent unnecessary digging in the site in
>> case they think it's "hidden" somewhere by accident.

There are a few sources of documentation.  I'd start with the release
notes:
http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc3/x86/

The unofficial Fedora FAQ is also a useful site:
http://www.fedorafaq.org/

and of course, a LOT of questions get answered on this list so the
archives are a good source for problem resolution:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/

If you don't find answers in any of those locations (or a Google
search), post specific questions here and you'll get either an answer or
a pointer to an answer.  I hope that helps and welcome to the world of
Fedora Core.

-- 
Henry