Fedora distribution..

[Fabian Affolter]

Joe Siebenmann wrote:

> Fedora is great, but I see that the only way left to
> download the whole distribution is to get the whole DVD iso
> image in one shot. :-\

No, it's still possible to mirror the installation tree to a local 
machine to get the whole distribution.

> Only a handful of people have internet speeds fast enough to
> get that whole image in any reasonable length of time.
> If you have anything like DSL, it would take WAY too long to
> try and download the whole thing.

There are several alternative ways of installing Fedora on a machine

- Installation over the internet (boot.iso 9.2MB [1] or the 
Fedora-8-i386-rescuecd.iso 103M [2])
- Installation from a local mirror (same images as above)
- Live media (around 700MB [3])

> You should, at least, have it broken-up into several CD images,
> the way you use to.  Keep the DVD images, but somewhere, give
> people a chance to download CD images or something smaller.

Fedora Unity provides CD sets [4] or start with a LiveCD.

Kind regards

Fabian


[1] 
http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/fedora/linux/releases/8/Fedora/i386/os/images/
[2] 
http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/fedora/linux/releases/8/Fedora/i386/iso/
[3] http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/fedora/linux/releases/8/Live/
[4] http://spins.fedoraunity.org/spins