fedora 8 - i386 or live cd

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 12:19 +0100, Mike Evans wrote:
> > after fighting problems of installing fedora using lilo, i now concede to
> > using grub.
> > 
> Grub is lovely, you'll get to like it. I've been a convert since Fedora 
> Core 2.  That's not to say you shouldn't have the choice of course.
> 
> > what are pros and cons for installing fedora 8, use i386 dvd or live cd?
> > 
> The DVD is a much fuller installation with all sorts of options of 
> desktop, office programs, programming environments, web servers and 
> other server type stuff.
> 
> The CD is pretty much a minimal desktop and that's it.  Its advantage is 
> that you can 'try before you buy' in the sense of not doing a full install.
> 
> I installed my desktop PC and all-round house server from the DVD from 
> the cover of a magazine and my laptop from a CD image I downloaded and 
> burned a month or so earlier.  There is nothing stopping you starting 
> with the CD and then using yum or the add/remove software GUI to get 
> everything else - assuming you know what you want.  Bear in mind that 
> Fedora 9 is due out so in the 6 months since release 8 has had a lot of 
> updates, so whichever route you take you will need a good connection to 
> update everything after your initial install.

Or you can download a later version from http://fedoraunity.org/re-spins
with many of the updates already incorporated.

poc