[lug] Installing from DVD

[steve at badcheese.com]

Yea, just get the live cd and install from it.

- Steve

On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Phillip Tribble wrote:

> Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:45:33 -0700
> From: Phillip Tribble <phillip.tribble at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: "Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List"
>     <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
> To: "Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List"
>     <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
> Subject: Re: [lug] Installing from DVD
> 
> Michael J. Hammel wrote:
>> Dumb question:  Fedora 7 only comes on DVD.  I've got a DVD player on
>> one box.  I've never tried booting a DVD from it.  If it boots when it
>> has a CD in it will it likely boot when it's got a DVD in it?  If not,
>> anyone know where I can get Fedora 7 on CDs?  It's time to upgrade from
>> FC5 (since ATrpms doesn't support it anymore).
>> 
>> And what do I do if I don't have a DVD player on all my boxes?  Some of
>> my boxes are running without CD or DVD drives.  When I upgrade, I move a
>> CD drive between them.  I don't have a spare DVD drive.
>> 
>> I've always been happy with Fedora, but is it really necessary to
>> distribute all 7500 packages in the base installation?  Isn't that what
>> the repositories were for?
>> 
> Fedora makes a installable live CD on their website.
>
>

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