Tired of making coasters

[David G. Miller]

Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> David G. Miller wrote:
>> > Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> > 
>>     
>>> >> David G. Miller wrote:
>>>       
>>>>> >>> > I'll change my comment somewhat since going over what will fit on a 
>>>>>           
>>>> >>> CD > seems to be intentional.  This is still silly if not downright 
>>>> >>> wrong.  > There are a lot more systems "out there" that only have a 
>>>> >>> CD drive and > no DVD drive.      
>>>>         
>>> >>
>>> >> Those systems can't use just x86 images or handle a network 
>>> >> installation either?
>>> >>
>>> >> Rahul
>>>       
>> > IMHO, the whole idea of going through the effort to create a live image 
>> > is so that people can try it without doing a full install.
>>     
>
> Yes. So use the x86 Live CD. Is that a problem?
>
> Rahul
Yes, it's a problem in this case.  I would like to confirm that specific 
functionality works with the Fedora 64-bit kernel.  As an example, my 
laptop has a Broadcom 4306 wireless NIC that currently only works with 
ndiswrapper when running with a 64-bit kernel.  It seems like 64-bit is 
the poor step-child when it comes to things like wireless support, 
memory card readers, etc.  Anything that doesn't work 64-bit but works 
under 32-bit tends to get a response of, "Just run 32-bit."

Cheers,
Dave

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