Installing F7 by CD and not by DVD

[Ric Moore]

On Sun, 2007-06-03 at 09:54 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> Timothy Murphy wrote:
> > Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > 
> >> There are several choices here:
> >>
> >> Use the Live CD images
> >>
> >> Use the boot.iso/rescue.iso and do a network installation from
> >> http/ftp/nfs
> >>
> >> Use boot.iso/rescue.iso, put the DVD image in the hard disk in one
> >> partition and install it another partition.
> > 
> > There are several choices, I agree.
> > (I am using one of them.)
> > But this does not alter the fact that
> > the decision to drop the CD installation set
> > was completely incomprehensible, to me at least.
> > 
> > You might as well put up a banner reading,
> > "Don't install Fedora if you are a home user.
> > Try Ubuntu instead."
> > 
> > Surely the aim should be to make it as easy as possible
> > for as many people as possible to install Fedora.
> > It is not meant to be an obstacle race.
> 
> OK....maybe I'm an idiot (please don't ask my wife).
> 
> But I just did the following....
> 
> 1.  Downloaded Fedora-7-KDE-Live-i686.iso via bit torrent.
> 2.  Burned the CD.
> 3.  Booted from the CD.
> 4.  When KDE came up I clicked on the large "Install to Disk" icon and the
> OS installed to HD.
> 5.  Rebooted the system from HD.
> 6.  Answered the questions in the "First Boot Dialog".
> 7.  Logged in as the user created in #6 and then ran the package manager to
> add what I wanted that wasn't on the CD.  This downloaded the rest of the
> packages from the net.
> 8.  I'm done.
> 
> AFAIK, this is *exactly* what Ubuntu does.
> 
> So, what am I missing?

The chance to bitch about how it is all broken and somebody had better
do something or "I'm going to switch to unbuntu where I don't need *any*
disks." Thank you Ed, for being a GOOD complete idiot. 

We are brothers in complete idiocy, proud of it too. :) Ric

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