On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 12:19 +0100, Mike Evans wrote: > > after fighting problems of installing fedora using lilo, i now concede to > > using grub. > > > Grub is lovely, you'll get to like it. I've been a convert since Fedora > Core 2. That's not to say you shouldn't have the choice of course. > > > what are pros and cons for installing fedora 8, use i386 dvd or live cd? > > > The DVD is a much fuller installation with all sorts of options of > desktop, office programs, programming environments, web servers and > other server type stuff. > > The CD is pretty much a minimal desktop and that's it. Its advantage is > that you can 'try before you buy' in the sense of not doing a full install. > > I installed my desktop PC and all-round house server from the DVD from > the cover of a magazine and my laptop from a CD image I downloaded and > burned a month or so earlier. There is nothing stopping you starting > with the CD and then using yum or the add/remove software GUI to get > everything else - assuming you know what you want. Bear in mind that > Fedora 9 is due out so in the 6 months since release 8 has had a lot of > updates, so whichever route you take you will need a good connection to > update everything after your initial install. Or you can download a later version from http://fedoraunity.org/re-spins with many of the updates already incorporated. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
