FEDORA 8 NETWORK BOOTING

Antonio Barragan ajbarragang08 at gmail.com
Sun Mar 1 16:16:18 UTC 2009


>
> Message: 14
> Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 15:22:50 +0100
> From: Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at>
> Subject: Re: fedora 8 network booting howto
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
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> Antonio Barragan wrote:
>> Since I´m considering Fedora 8 as the linux version to use
>
> Don't. Fedora 8 is no longer supported, it makes no sense to select it for
> new installations now! There are no more updates for Fedora 8, not even
> security updates. All Fedora users are expected to have already upgraded to
> Fedora 9 or 10. Installing Fedora 8 now is outright stupid.
>
> The only Fedora version which could be an option for you is Fedora 10.
> (Fedora 9 also has only about 4 months of updates left.)
>
> If you use Fedora, you have to upgrade at least once a year. If that's not
> an option for you, then Fedora is the wrong distribution for your
> deployment. Try CentOS.
>
>         Kevin Kofler

Hi, Kevin

Thanks for your reply

I´m aware of that. Thing is that, after downloading and having tried to install
 both  F9 and F10 several times, I´ve ended up with no more than hangups.

I´ll try CentOS or maybe Debian


Antonio




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