Installing F7 by CD and not by DVD

[H.S.]

H.S. wrote:
> Joachim Backes wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> having some systems without DVD drive, but with CD drive.
>> Is there a place from where I can download some CD isos instead of one 
>> DVD iso for F7?
>>
>> Regards
>>
> 
> How about this:
> 1. Download boot.iso from Fedora 7 mirrors (e.g. from 
> ftp://ftp.muug.mb.ca/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/i386/os/images/)
> 2. Burn that to a CD (makes a bootable CD).
> 3. Download the Fedora 7 DVD iso (best is done from torrents) and put it 
> on a partition in your disk which will not be overwritten during 
> installation.
> 4. Boot from the boot disk and start installation by telling the 
> installer to install from the ISO image that is on your hard disk.
> 
> I am going to try it out in a day or two when I get some time 
> (downloading the DVD iso at present).

This went very well (except that I had to have the DVD iso alone in a 
directory; presence of another iso seemed to have confused the 
installer). It took around 15 minutes for the install to complete -- I 
did not install the Office and Productivity Suite though.

->HS