On 05/09/2012 05:34 PM, John Reiser wrote: > On 05/09/2012 01:33 PM, drago01 wrote: >> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 10:07 PM, Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> I'd like to break CD limit too but we should not forgot there are users >>> for which CD is top technology from dreams and we have a lot of these >>> users among some countries... >> Where are the numbers to back this nonsense up? >> A DVD burner costs ~12 € ... and any computer that old isn't really >> that capable of running fedora reasonably anyway. > Such a claim is FALSE. My 700MHz PentiumIII with 384MB RAM runs Fedora 11 > just fine. OpenOffice is eminently usable, for example. It's a 2001 > laptop that has only CD-ROM and USB1.1, and the BIOS cannot boot from USB. > I have added USB2.0 via PCMCIA card, and somewhere around Fedora 12 > could boot from external DVD via USB2.0 (via trampoline from the harddrive) > because the PCMCIA drivers for the bridge that enables the USB2.0 card > were in the initrd. But then the PCMCIA drivers were dropped from initrd, > so it no longer boots newer Fedora from DVD. Meanwhile deteriorating > support for RagePro graphics has nudged me back to Fedora 11. Fedora 11 > is only 3 years old. > Just install over the network and not be stuck in Fedora 11. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
