Unofficial FC4.1 i386 isos

[Warren Togami]

Hans Kristian Rosbach wrote:
> After the recent discussion "FC4 state of affairs and FC5"
> on fedora-devel about the possibility of making updated
> installation iso images I gave it a try and actually
> managed to put it together nicely.
> (Can't say I liked the anaconda build utils, but ohwell)
> 
> So, if you feel like testing a potentially dangerous
> unofficial release of updated FC4 install images I have
> put them up on a server.
> 
> It's only i386, only cd, only torrent.
> 
> Feedback appreciated!
> 
> Please don't bug Fedora developers with FC4.1 specific bugs.
> 
> http://fedora.isphuset.no
> 
> -HK
> 

Great work and good idea with the torrent-only distribution, very 
efficient.  Also thank you for calling it unofficial.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=159026
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=159087
You may want to look into backporting some of the more important fixes 
in order to avoid some of the nastier install problems of FC4.

http://people.redhat.com/wtogami/temp/1398/
As for the kernel I personally think 1398 is far less problematic for 
most folks than 1447.  I copied all of the 1398 kernels for you here if 
you want to try that instead.  Or maybe you should wait for a better new 
FC4 update kernel to hit the official tree.

Since you will probably be respinning several times as you incorporate 
more bug fixes, you may want to use X.Y.Z versioned filenames with a 
separate changelog page on your website to explain what changed without 
users needing to download the entire torrent to find out.  In your 
respins try to focus on issues that screw up the install process.  All 
other bugs in the distribution are easily fixed with up2date or yum 
after and far less important.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com