Fedora Core 2 Distribution Size
Jon Atkinson
jonathana at cleanstick.org
Sat Jan 3 19:24:47 UTC 2004
I think therefore it might be a good idea to make this more prominent
then. On the download page (http://fedora.redhat.com/download/#boot) the
diskette images are mentioned, but maybe a few small changes should be
made, to explain to users the _advantages_ of using diskette images. I
think the fact this feature and installation method exists should be
trumpeted to users as loudly as possible; surely the bandwidth savings
(for both redhat.com and its mirrors) would be fairly large. I don't see
any disadvantages to this, unless I'm missing something obvious in which
case I await correction ;-)
As an aside, does anyone have access to the download statistics for the
images? I'd be interested to see a few figures :-)
--Jon Atkinson
Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 18:41, Jim Cornette wrote:
>
>>Jeremy Katz wrote:
>>I've done the floppy install (series of 4 floppies) of Debian before. I
>>liked the network install, though Debian didn't meet my particular
>>needs. I also downloaded and burned a whole series of CDROMs and it only
>>used the first CD. (A big waste, but a learning experience). I think
>>that their other concept of selecting desired programs that then create
>>your customized installations is a good approach, if dependencies could
>>be met through the selector.
>>
>>It might serve Fedora to have such a capability, though it sounds like
>>it would be a nightmare to implement successfully.
>
>
> It's there. If you boot with the floppy image (boot.img + drvnet.img
> from the images/ directory), then you can do an ftp install with just 2
> floppies instead of four :)
>
>
>>Instead of the installation option being kind of hidden, it would be
>>nice to see it available as a choice when the first disc booted up.
>>Alternatively, a credit card model with just ftp / http installation
>>starting might be a good idea. I heard mention of a boot.iso, so it must
>>already exist and is or can be offered within the regular directory that
>>contains the usual 6 discs. ( rpms, srpms)
>
>
> I don't see how this is hidden... If you boot with regular CDs, then
> the right thing to do is go ahead and use them because that's what the
> 99% case is going to want. You can bypass the autocd detection (boot
> with 'linux askmethod') -- all of this is in the syslinux help screens
> :/
>
> boot.iso is located in the images/ directory and is an approximately 4
> meg image that you can burn to CD and start an install with. Maybe
> putting it in the isos directory instead of just the tree would help
> raise the visibility here.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeremy
>
>
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