Website info request

[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 05:49:08PM +0100, Age Bosma wrote:
> I wasn't able to find a page which gave me some info about what each 
> disc actually contains. Are all 4 disc necessary to be able to install 
> Fedora? Since the distribution is 4 disc big in total, providing this 
> info might reduce the amount of downloads if not all disc are realy 
> necessary.

They're not, but it's often hard to guess exactly which packages will be on
which disk. I'd suggest doing an FTP or HTTP install -- you only have to
download fedora/core/3/i386/os/images/boot.iso (4.9M), start the install,
and then from within the installer pick what packages you want.

> There is no obvious location on the site with support info. I'm not even 
> sure this mailing list is the one I should send this stuff to. A page 
> with at least mailing list info would be handy to have.

This is It. I think the web page doesn't mention support because it wants to
emphasize that RH doesn't offer any at all (for a very specific definition
of "any at all"). But you're right; this could be more clear.


> At this stage there aren't any docs available about how to install/use 
> Fedora, only docs about how to write docs, am I right?
> This was a bit confusing to me.

Pretty much. :)


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