Fedora Core 2

[Rick Stevens]

Danesh Daroui wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Finally you mean that a RPMS version of Fedora core 2 is complete and
> installable like usula vesion or it is ONLY packages and not the basic Linux
> ?

A collection of ALL of the RPMs is complete, but it's not an installable
image.  In other words, yes, you can _upgrade_ an _existing_ Linux
system to FC2 using a bunch of RPMs, but it's incredibly tedious and
prone to errors.

The ".iso" files are exact images of the installation CDs that would be
available if FC2 were to be sold in a boxed set.  You download the .iso
files and burn them to CDs using a program such as "Roxio" under Windows
(using the "use file as CD image" option) or "cdrecord" under Linux.

This creates bootable CDs, so you can put the first CD in the CD-ROM
drive, reboot your machine and immediately enter the install process.

For some details on how to do this operation, see:

	http://www.rhil.net/docs/faq.html

By the way, Danesh, we prefer bottom-posting here (put your comments
AFTER what you're commenting on).  It helps with the flow of the
message.

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Rick Stevens" <rstevens at vitalstream.com>
> To: "Getting started with Red Hat Linux" <redhat-install-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 6:48 PM
> Subject: Re: Fedora Core 2
> 
> 
> 
>>Danesh Daroui wrote:
>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>I have a 900 Mhz Pentium III almost old PC and I want to install Fedora
>>>Core 2 on it, but I don't know should I download x86 64-bit version of
>>>Fedora Core 2 or i386 32-bit ?
>>
>>A Pentium III is a 32-bit processor, so you MUST use the 32-bit version
>>of Fedora Core 2 (or as we call it, "FC2").
>>
>>
>>>                                    Also, I don't know either what is
>>>defference between RPMS and usual versions of Fedore Core 2. Can you
>>>please help me ?
>>
>>An RPM is a specific package of programs to do some specific thing on
>>the system.  For example, the "bind" RPM contains everything you need to
>>set up a DNS server or client.
>>
>>If you want to install FC2, you should download the 32-bit ".iso" images
>>and burn them to a CD.
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