On 05/10/12 17:00, Adam Jackson wrote: > On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 09:16 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> Adam Jackson wrote: >>> Even if all of your objections are true, and who knows, they might be: >>> we already do provide alternatives. The Live media is not the only >>> install media. >> >> The other alternatives are either already DVDs or netinstall CDs which >> require a fast Internet connection (which people who don't even have a DVD >> drive are unlikely to have). > > So the set of people we'd be inconveniencing is exactly the set of > people with no bandwidth and the inability to boot from anything larger > than a CD. > > Do we think that's a statistically significant number of people, or are > we just arguing? I suspect the number is pretty small if non-zero at all. Fedora raises the hardware requirements now and then. The minimum cpu required for i386 was changed a few versions back. Likewise very old gfx cards tend to not be supported very well (see the guy running F11 for that reason). You need a not too small amout of memory to run the livecd and the anaconda installer. I guess it is pretty hard to find hardware which runs f18 well and can not boot from dvd or usb ... Also, can the netinst.iso install from local media too? A usb key for example? So you can use netinst.iso @ CD and install-dvd @ usbkey to install if your box can boot from cd only ... cheers, Gerd -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
