How to use fedora-11 source dvd?

Thu Sep 17 14:47:55 UTC 2009

On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 20:11 +0530, Abhishek Sharma wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I accidentally downloaded the fedora-11-source-DVD, instead of
> downloading the bootable version of fedora.
> Now I have few doubts regarding this DVD.
> 
> 1. Can I use it to install fedora?
> 2. Can I use it to install packages contained in it? 
> 
> if yes then please let me know how.

No, the contents of the DVD is source code. You'd need to bootstrap the
whole system from source before you would be able to install it.

Just download the binary DVD.
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Jussi Lehtola
Fedora Project Contributor
jussilehtola at fedoraproject.org