CD and DVD ISO images

[John Summerfield]

David Boles wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> John Summerfield wrote:
> | Timothy Murphy wrote:
> |> Ed Landaveri wrote:
> |>
> |>> If your computer has no DVD drive and you need to do
> |>> an installation, do a FTP or NFS install. It'll be
> |>> faster & cleaner.
> |>
> |> An alternative is to use the KDE Live CD,
> |> install that, and use "yum groupinstall"
> |> to install anything more one wants.
> |>
> |
> |
> | Neither helps me give a copy to my mate.
> | Neither helps install sans network; I've just tried Ubuntu jeos and,
> | despite being on a CD, it wants to download more stuff from the
> | Internet. Yuck and <plonk>.
> |
> | The CD-sized images in a DVD solves problems that other techniques do 
> not.
> |
> | Really, the question is, "Why not?"
> 
> I am not with Fedora and can not answer your "Why not?". But I would guess
> it is drive space, plus mirror complaints, and no time.  ;-)

If you'd read the whole thread, you'd know disk space isn't an issue. 
There are no separate CD images.

> 
> 
> The only place that I know of for Fedora CD's is here.
> 
> Fedora Unity
> http://spins.fedoraunity.org/
> 
> This site uses jigdo and (I have not done this but I would bet it would
> work) jigdo would read *your* DVD, download the updated packages, and make
> the CD's from the updates and the unchanged packages from your DVD. These
> CDs, should this work, would be up-to-date as of Dec 18, 2007.
> 
> I have done a DVD to DVD update and jigdo works quite well.

I've been using (and recommending) Jigdo for years. I don't recall 
seeing official Fedora jigdoes around.


-- 

Cheers
John

-- spambait
1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu  Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu
-- Advice
http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375

You cannot reply off-list:-)