[wplug] [wplug-announce] Installfest this weekend

[Bryan J. Smith]

"Weber, Lawrence A" <laweber at switch.com> wrote:
> I thought they only made FC7 available on DVD??? 

Nope.  And people seem to be getting confused.
"Full" ("Everything") Fedora is available on _nothing_ now.

Fedora only -- post-"Core" -- "officially" provides ...
1.  Minimal .iso (CD) and .img (USB) installer
2.  Rescue .iso (CD)
3.  Live (CD) with minimal package set
4.  DVD (DVD) which is largely the "upgrade" set for older RHL/FC

#1, #2 and #4 have been around a long time.  #3 is only more recent,
and finally "shaken out well" with Fedora 7 (F7 -- remember, there is
_no_ more "Core").

Fedora also provides "Revisor" and other tools which lets you respin
CD/DVDs installs and Live CD/DVDs as you see fit.  This is a vast
improvement over the old, simple Anaconda tools that were a PITA
(except for many NFS installs).

And with Fedora 8, they will make it so the "Revisor" and other tools
make it cake to spin to USB media for both installs and Live.  It's
actually not too difficult and other distros already do the same, bu
there are a few gotchas here and there (they didn't address for
Fedora 7).



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