Re: HELP!About download FC4 images.

* Jean-David Beyer <jdbeyer@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Andrew Preater wrote:
>> Generally when you have a GNU/Linux distribution that comes on
>> several CDs, only the first CD is actually _required_ for
>> installation. You can get anything else from the Internet
>> afterwards. Now you'd be really confused by Debian 'sarge' --
>> 14 CDs.
>>
> I do not remember Fedora Core releases because I only tried FC2
> and did not like it. But with other releases (from Red Hat and
> CentOS), you need most of the CDs (not the SRPMS ones, and not
> the extras and not the documentation -- although I prefer to
> load the documentation).

I wonder when this madness started? Mayayana says it's the same
for SUSE, you'll need all of the CDs for installation. I haven't
looked at the Red Hat installer since 5.x, but I remember that
was definitely only one CD!

Certainly, all of the Linux and BSD distributions I've installed
require only the first CD of the set, assuming they have more
than one. The _right way_ would be to have enough on CD1 to get
a base system installed plus enough extra programs to download
anything else you want. Then you'd have less popular packages on
each CD further on in the set. (Yes, I think the way Debian does
it is the "right" way.) A separate 'documentation' or
'internationalisation' CD isn't uncommon, but I think that's a
mistake.

I downloaded a bunch of distributions a few months ago, including
Fedora, but only got the first CD of each distribution because
"That's all I need, the rest of it can come off the 'Net". The
Fedora documentation isn't very good on this, it just says (a)
you should download all of the ISO images, (b) but you can do a
'minimal' install which is quite small. I can't believe the
minimal install would grab a package from CD1, another from CD3,
another from CD4...

> [Windows XP CD]
> I think they have their own reasons for not having a .iso on
> their web site; I do not believe they support open source for
> their products. ;-)

It turns out they don't need to host the ISO, you can get it from
Bittorrent trackers hosted by places like Piratebay.org or
Torrentspy.com. It's unusual to see a corporate behemoth like MS
relying on this for distribution of their software, but Windows
seems fairly popular so I suppose it must be working for them.
;-)

--
Andrew Preater
.

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