Newbie question about rmps

[Rick Stevens]

Manoel Fraga de Assis Jr wrote:
> I gived up about ISO's bro, im going to the OS folder download...anyway
> 
> Im using XP now, I want to put Fedora on because I will have Linux on
> College soon then I can pratice...
> 
> I first downloaded dvd iso to 32bits machines
> afther download all the 4g I burned it on dvd using Nero (used same way to
> burn Boot.iso and worked)
> 
> Then I downloaded the cd ISOs to retry on that way...didnt work...tryied to
> use IsoBuster to extract files from ISOs and at Image its only show a track
> and nothing else (diferente from Boot.iso again that shows the files and let
> me extract em)

You must burn the .iso images you downloaded using Nero's "burn CD from 
ISO image" option.  See http://www.rhil.net/docs/faq.html#making_cds
> 
> I just Deleted all ISO's I got and start download the 2G from OS folder
> (fedora 2)

You will not be able to install that way.  All you'll have is a bunch of
RPMs.  Unless you're already running Linux, they're useless.

> 
> thx again,
> 
> Manoel
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> 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 5:36 PM
> Subject: Re: Newbie question about rmps
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> 
>>Manoel Fraga de Assis Jr wrote:
>>
>>>Hi im downloading the folders and files to install fedora (the ISOs
>>>download didnt work, dvd or even the cds),
>>
>>How do you mean "didn't work"?  Did you burn the .iso images to CDs
>>using your program's "use file as image" option?  If you could be a bit
>>more specific about exactly what you have available to do this (your
>>current operating system and CD burning software), we might be able to
>>help.
>>
>>
>>>What the diference between RPMS and SRPMS?
>>
>>The RPMs are the binary (executable) programs and files.  SRPMs are the
>>source code used to build the RPMs of the same name.
>>
>>
>>>Do I need to download SPMS too?I saw that folder is any Alias at OS
>>>folder and not a folder placed there...
>>
>>No, you don't need the SRPMs unless you want to modify the programs and
>>rebuild the binaries yourself.
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