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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