[Coco] Fedora 6 DVD ISO

[Mike Pepe]

Roger Taylor wrote:
> At 12:21 PM 4/29/2007, you wrote:
> 
>> Roger,
>>
>> Your going to hate hearing this but the Fedora core doesn't come
>> with all the tools, games, software, etc that's available. :-)
>> There's a lot more available. You will have a very useable system
>> though. Once you get thing running we can go through the process
>> patching your machine. When your done with that we can show you
>> how to find out what applications are available from redhat and
>> install what you want.
>>
>> For the record Redhat 7 was a bad and very buggy release and anyone
>> using it should have either downgraded to 6 or moved on to 8 as quickly
>> as possible. Redhat 9 was a good release but is ~4 years old. There have
>> been a lot of improvements in the kernel and most other applications. 
>> Even
>> Redhat has ended support for it.
> 
> 
> I'm having ISP problems right trying to download anything.  IE and 
> Firefox both are lying and reporting "download complete" way before they 
> really are.  Downloads are not being aborted, but seen as complete.  
> This started happening when Fedora 6 was 183mb into the 3.3gb download.  
> Now nothing will download completely that's of considerable size.  Maybe 
> tomorrow or tonight I'll get my priveledges back, if that's the problem.
> 
> Here's the 32mb businesscard version of the CD ISO for Debian, which I'm 
> looking at using for now for the reason of possible downstream 
> limitations I might be under with my connection for today.  However, 
> even this 32mb file is closing down as complete before it really is.
> 
> http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r0/i386/iso-cd/
> 
> I may have to go so far as ask for someone to send me a DVD copy of the 
> Fedora 6 installer and I'll compensate with $ or trade.
> 
> 

Roger,

There's no difference between the CD and DVD distributions of FC6- if 
you aren't used to downloading these 3+GB DVD ISOs, just grab the CDs. 
The only advantage of the DVD is no disc swapping involved, but you may 
be downloading tons of stuff you don't need (extra docs, srpms,etc)

Also be aware that at this point, so late in the FC6 life cycle (FC7 is 
due out relatively soon) that you're going to end up downloading 500MB 
or so of updates anyway if you installed everything off the cd/dvd.

May as well just grab the CDs, do a relatively minimal (default) 
install, and use yum to install what you want later.

-Mike