Installation of Fedora 7 no go

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Tue Jun 5 15:42:50 UTC 2007


> It would have been nice in those cases
> if one could have re-tried the read
> (eg by taking the disk out and putting it back in),
> as one can on Mr Gates' system,
> but unfortunately Fedora seems to require you
> to start again from scratch if there is a bad read.

Agreed. Reopening/closing the drawer will often sort that, or swapping
for an identically burned disk.

(Or allowing you to pull the package by ftp)

Anaconda is a bit inflexible in this area (eg it can't trivially combined
CD & Network) but if anyone feels passionate about it and likes python
then can have fun hacking that in.




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