Where are the Fedora 7 CD ISOs
John
John at johnsdesign.net
Sat Jun 23 23:03:45 UTC 2007
Chris Jones wrote:
> On Friday 22 June 2007 8:02:50 pm bdk at unb.ca wrote:
>
>> Some of the systems I need to upgrade from FC 5/6 to Fedora 7 do not have
>> a DVD drive. In the past there was a set of 4 or 5 CDs that one used to
>> upgrade. Do these ISO images still exist for Fedora 7? I see a KDE and
>> Gnome(?) live ISOs but no full distribution.
>>
>> If so where are they?
>>
>> If not how does one go from FC5/6 to Fedora 7 without a DVD drive?
>>
>
> The live CDs are also installable. Just stick it in, boot to it. If it comes
> up OK you will find a "install to harddrive" icon on the desktop. Just run
> this.
>
> It runs anaconda so you should have the full range of upgrade/install options
> as a normal install (not 100% sure on this though, when I did it I did a
> fresh install and didn't look to see if there was an upgrade option ?)
>
> As there is only one CD there is of course a reduced set of packages
> available - But assuming your system has network they are all but a yum
> install away, so no big deal.
>
> If you are trying to install to a box with no network or DVD drive, well you
> might have problems and have to try some of the clever work arounds suggested
> on this list...
>
> Chris
>
>
I downloaded and tried the Live disc the other day; how necessary is it
to have a gig of ram for the install? Most of the machines here are
PIII's and the ram max on some are at 700+mb.
John
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