[lug] Installing from DVD

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 08:40:22 -0600
mjhammel at graphics-muse.org ("Michael J. Hammel") wrote:

> On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 22:58 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > Yeah, there is no official F7 version on CD, but someone has
> > created a respin that is on CD:
> > 
> > http://fedora.kanarip.com/torrents/
> 
> I still haven't mucked with torrents.  No idea how to use them.  Just
> gettin' old, I guess (or too slow to keep up).

It's pretty easy. There are a ton of clients out there. I typically use
'rtorrent'. It's a curses based client. You can run it inside a screen
session somewhere and it just works. Easiest case you just start it
with the .torrent file as an argument and it downloads it for you. 

> > Also there is the "Everything" DVD spin, and the new Fedora Unity
> > respins (F7 + all errata). 
> 
> I dug around some more.  Found the Everything spins (in torrents).
> Didn't find anything called Unity.  But I'm guessing I can do like I
> used to do - do my install, then do an update on everything to get the
> latest errata.

The above link has the unity respins. 
Yeah, you can easily apply updates after. 

...snipp...

> > There are some more minimal spins out there... 
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CustomSpins
> 
> Is F8 on it's way?  I've seen an alpha release and a reference to Test
> 2.  And are they just supporting a years worth of releases?  It seems
> I've heard they're doing 6 month release cycles now, which would make
> 6 and 7 just a years worth of releases.  If so, I'm going to have to
> change my upgrade cycles.  I usually do 2 years between upgrades.

Yeah, F8 test 2 came out today. 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/8/Schedule

Fedora releases are supported for 13 months. So, one month after F8 is
released, then FC6 will be end of lifed. 

If you only want to upgrade every two years, you might look at
Centos/RHEL/debian/Ubuntu LTS. 

> Thanks for the pointers Kevin.

No problem.

kevin
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