Installing F7 by CD and not by DVD
Rick Stevens
rstevens at internap.com
Fri Jun 1 21:34:29 UTC 2007
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.
> The other option is to use Pungi and the livecd-tools to roll your own
> customized respin and choose the packages you want.
>
> On 6/1/07, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 19:28 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 15:12 +0530, Rahul Sundaram 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?
> > >> The "Fedora" spin doesn't have CD equivalent but there is
> GNOME and KDE
> > >> based Live images available from the torrent and mirrors.
> > >>
> > >> http://torrent.fedoraproject.org
> > >>
> > >> Rahul
> > >>
> > > What then does the Release notes mean insection 2.2.1
> Spins by:
> > > "A regular image for desktops, workstations and server
> users"?
> >
> > I wrote that release notes and I referred to Fedora regular
> DVD image.
> > Is there any contradiction?
> >
> > Rahul
> >
> It is not so much a contradiction but the absence of a clear
> statement
> of how people without DVD drives can install Fedora 7?
>
> People keep asking but no clear answer is offered. Is it a
> Live CD that
> downloads the system from somewhere ore what?
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