Website update

[Máirín Duffy]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Máirín Duffy wrote:
> 
>> Black space issues should be fixed.
> 
> Not yet. See my other mail.

Yes, as I wrote, it is now working as designed.

>> Why is that a problem?
> 
> Not a problem if you choose the wording to accommodate users without a 
> net connection which you already agree with.

Oh okay.
> 
>>> I would prefer we highlight the small boot.iso image for network 
>>> installation much more here.
>>
>> Can you give me some text for that? Honestly the wiki page does a 
>> great job with all of this but I don't want to parrot the whole page. 
>> I want this to be short and simple.
>>
>> Do that many people really download the boot.iso image and do network 
>> installs?
> 
> Many people are simply not aware of it and still think Fedora doesn't 
> have a network installation feature.
> 
> Here is some sample text:
> 
> Generic version:
> 
> All ISO images of Fedora support a network installation feature which 
> you can use to install Fedora over a http/ftp/nfs network and can be 
> controlled remotely using VNC. A small (less than 10 MB) boot.iso image 
> is available from under the os/images folder in your favorite mirror. 
> You can access the network installation feature by entering the 
> "askmethod" option in the boot prompt. Read the Fedora installation 
> guide (link to http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/) for more 
> details.
> 
> Alternatively a FC6 specific version:
> 
> All ISO images of Fedora support a network installation feature which 
> you can use to install Fedora over a http/ftp/nfs network and can be 
> controlled remotely using VNC. A small (7.9 MB) boot.iso image is 
> available from 
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/os/images/ 
> or in your favorite mirror. You can access the network installation 
> feature by entering the  "askmethod" option in the boot prompt. Read the 
> Fedora installation guide (link to 
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/fc6/en/sn-alt-install-method.html) 
> for more details.

Great, I'll add this in! Thanks!!
> 
> 
>>> Shouldn't we have a good page explaining the differences between 
>>> different spins and what target they serve in this page?
>>
>> I have no idea what the differences are between the different spins, I 
>> don't even know what they are at this point. If you think this is 
>> really important, can you point me to or draft some text to explain it?
>>
>> Thinking about this we're going to be making it very difficult for 
>> someone to just click a link and download what they want. Maybe the 
>> download page should be refactored for each of the different spins? 
>> And link directly?
> 
> Yep. Don't worry about this for now for the FC6 pages. I will write 
> about the different spins before Fedora 7 release.

Okay thanks!

~m