[lug] Installing from DVD and Don't skip Upgrades

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From: "Michael J. Hammel" <mjhammel at graphics-muse.org>
Subject: [lug] Installing from DVD
 Fedora 7 only comes on DVD.   It's time to upgrade from
FC5 (since ATrpms doesn't support it anymore).


 Two things:?? 
1)? When I jumped from FC3 to FC5, skipping FC4, I regretted it later.? All sorts of little quirks.? Maybe do 6, 7?

?I am "rehabilitating" a bunch of old machines w/o DVD readers.? 

<<Comic interlude:? I was told they had CD/DVD readers.? Some time ago, I had a hell of a time burning a bootable DVD - so I took it for granted I had a burn problem.? You should have seen the conniption fits, trying to create a bootable DVD of FC7.? Til the light caught just right on the black plastic of the CD/DVD reader door - and I noticed the letters DVD seemed to have fallen off...?? :-)?? >>

2)? I had FC6 CD1 and FC6 rescue CDs hanging around.? Just shoved them in and did HTTP installs.? Easiest thing in the world.
But then I guess I cheat. I'm connected to campus, which seems to have suddenly gotten a REAL FAST connection to one of the government institutions with a mirror.
Download took shorter than editing 3 lines in openvpn config (but then I am slow at editing).
Actually, the first one I did was to a very slow mirror - I just started it at night and it was done in the morning.




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