CD and DVD ISO images

[John Summerfield]

David Boles wrote:
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> John Summerfield wrote:
> | David Boles wrote:
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> |> Gee. Sorry. I was just trying to help you and your friend. And I did
> |> offer
> |> a reasonable solution. A way to make a CD set from an existing, already
> |> downloaded, official, Fedora 8 DVD and official Fedora 8 updated 
> packages
> |> downloaded from official Fedora mirrors into a CD set of Fedora. Even if
> |> you did *not* have a local DVD source this would make the CD isos 
> without
> |> that. And Jigdo, bluntly, is so simple to use that anyone that *thinks*
> |> that they can use Linux should be able to do it.
> |>
> |> But what you want is a DVD with CD isos for everyone instead of an
> |> installable DVD iso that I, and many, many others, could use with out 
> the
> |> magic, smoke, and mirrors. No thanks.
> |
> | That is my proposal. See my first email in this thread.
> |
> | Specifically, why is it a bad idea?
> 
> 
> The reason CDs were dropped was, as I understood it, to give the mirrors a
> space break. DVD and not a duplicate package set on 5 CDs. You are
> proposing two DVDs. One a 'real' DVD and one a DVD made of 5 CDs isos.

Not so. One DVD, structured differently.


> Sounds to me like the same thing. You, or someone, proposed an install DVD
> made up from 5 CD isos? When I see the Anaconda that will do that reliably
> I might support it.

My plan is to discuss it here, then take it to the Anaconda list.

> 
> 
> |> And I think that it makes more sense the way it is now than with the 
> hair
> |> brained CD isos in a DVD iso solution that you propose.
> |>
> |> BTW - While I was preparing dinner I started this 'process' and I am
> |> currently working on the fifth, there are five total in the set, CD iso.
> |> If you had not been such a hard a$$ you could had CDs to hand to your
> |> friend by tomorrow at the latest.
> |
> | So what? I've been using Linux for a decade or so, but I don't think it
> | should be as hard for others as it's been for me. I've been using and
> | recommending jigdo for around half that time.
> | See
> | http://www.redhat.com/archives/phoebe-list/2003-January/thread.html#00226
> | - it's just gone five years old.
> |
> | I'm not proposing a solution to a problem _I_ find insurmountable. I'm
> | proposing a solution to a problem I see as being fairly wide-spread. I
> | have here seven Pentium IVs and later that came without DVD drives. All
> | are suitable for running Linux, and several do.
> 
> 
> I have been using Linux since late 1998 or early 1999. Linux today is no
> where near as difficult to use as it was then. I came from OS/2 Warp. That

Look me up at googlism.com Some (but not all) references are to me.



> was *difficult* to configure. After using OS/2 Linux, again using, was
> easy to configure. Except for all of the hardware that was not yet
> supported. The software that would crash. A KDE version update of almost
> any kind was a sure disaster.
> 
> Todays Linux, with a lot of work done by good people is IMO easy to
> install and configure.
> 
> Your 'mate' should get the LIVE-CD. That's what they're for, to try before
> you buy. Somethings might be missing. But not much. And it does install.

My proposal has nothing to do with the desirability of the live CD; 
sometimes that might be acceptable, sometimes not. My mate William runs 
Linux, just not Fedora. If he wanted it at all, he'd want the lot.






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