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

[phillip tribble]

On 9/13/07, gordongoldin at aim.com <gordongoldin at aim.com> wrote:
>
>
>  From: "Michael J. Hammel" <mjhammel at graphics-muse.org>
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> 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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Here is a link for the Fedora Live CD
http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/torrents//Fedora-7-Live-i686.torrent
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