Update or new ISOs ?

[Robert L Cochran]

I prefer doing network installs because they are faster and I don't have 
to remember to put another CD in the drive. You can use bootnet.img or 
just burn CD #1, boot from that, and specify 'linux askmethod' at the 
boot: prompt.

I want to try pxe-booting the Tom Diehl way...just as soon as this other 
machine of mine is ready...

I burn CDs of the betas partly so that I have a rescue CD to use and 
partly so that I can show a really nice beta to friends and then press 
free CD sets on them. ("No time limitation, and the release version is 
free, too.") That has gotten one friend into Linux.

Unfortunately, my main demo machine is my older Sony Vaio laptop, and 
the Fedora mouse driver has simply gone right down the sewer on that 
machine -- the mouse goes crazy with random movements -- and I'm afraid 
to show Fedora without a working mouse to my particular crowd.

Bob


Maynard Kuona wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 18:08, Botoaca Andrei wrote:
> 
>>If i keep updating from rawhide will it be any different as if I would 
>>download the new ISOs and install them ? (I don't really want to waste other 
>>3 CDs for this ... )
>>because I saw that after last weeks updates I already have 9.0.95 as PC name 
>>(so I guess all updates I do lead exactly to the new ISOs), am I right !?
>>
>>Thanks
>>Me
> 
> 
> You do not have to use CD's. You can put the iso files in a folder you
> can access from the floppy boot disk. Create a boot floppy using rawrite
> from CD1. I think the proper image for the floppy is called bootdisk.img
> or something like that. Boot from the floppy and select Hard drive
> install from teh install options. In Fedora I am sure this now gives a
> graphical install. You do not have to extract the contents of the isos.
> Pretty nice feature of Redhats install. For more info refer to the
> redhat install guide. No need to waste CD's on Beta's.
> 
> Just in case you didn't know.
> 
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Bob Cochran
Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
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