Installing F7 by CD and not by DVD
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Jun 18 09:15:37 UTC 2007
Thufir wrote:
> On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:34:29 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 15:04 -0500, Justin Gibson wrote:
>>> Yes, you can install from the LiveCD. You can then install the missing
>>> packages you want/need afterwards via yum or whichever front-end for it
>>> you prefer.
>> Yes, that's true. You can run directly from the LiveCD. If you like
>> it, you can install the LiveCD stuff onto your hard drive (there's a
>> tool provided for that). For the full install, it grabs the things you
>> need/want off the Internet.
> [...]
>
> Please clarify it's it's one of the following:
>
> 1.) like knoppix, installing to hdd pulls from the cd itself.
> 2.) it's like "linux ask method", http, specify a mirror, etc
> 3.) other, both, ...?
More like 1) but the installation does offer you the ability to point to
a third party/custom repository and install packages from it.
Rahul
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