F8 Rescue Disk For Install

[Todd Denniston]

Kevin J. Cummings wrote, On 02/26/2008 01:37 PM:
> Oliver Ruebenacker wrote:
>>      Dear friends,
>>
>>   I was planning to install F8 the same way I installed F7: Burn a
>> rescue disk on CD-R and then use it to install over the net. I can
>> burn CDs but not DVDs and I thought why burn several CDs if one is
>> enough (and I could not find a set of F8 installation CDs either).
> 
> Check the Fedora Unity project.  Their ISO images include CD sets
> created from the same package set as the DVD images.  You'll have to
> learn how to use jigdo, though its much quicker if you start with the
> DVD image (or a previous DVD image) already.  The last known FU release
> was 02/04/2008 so it should be simple to install and then update.
> 

Assuming that because Oliver did not know about where to find a rescue/install 
cd image, then Oliver is probably not familiar with Fedora Unity, so I think 
some links are in order.

The related Fedora Unity links:
http://fedorasolved.org/post-install-solutions/jigdo/
http://spins.fedoraunity.org/
http://spins.fedoraunity.org/spins
http://spins.fedoraunity.org/unity/fedora-unity-re-spin-f8-20080204

A somewhat easier to follow jigdo with fedora page:
http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Getting_Fedora_respins_with_Jigdo

BTW jigdo is available in FC7 so you should at worst need to
su -c 'yum install jigdo'
before you can get going.

BTW2 I just used jigdo myself the other day
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2008-February/msg02433.html
and it worked quite well to build both the F9A DVD and rescue CD images, 
granted I have a local mirror for rawhide but most of the rescue CD had to be 
downloaded.



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Todd Denniston
Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane)
Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter