On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 20:51 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: > History: Up until Fedora 7 all RH family products had an install CD that > people could download, stick in their drive and install a minimal set of > packages or at least specify a method to install from. > > Problem: As of Fedora 7 (and soon with Fedora 8) they cannot do this. > The installable live cd can install but not in the traditional sense of > what people are used to. It has no package selection and cannot upgrade. > > Opinion: I believe, in part, this has contributed to the dip in numbers > we saw between FC6 and F7. > > Future problem: as of F8 for an individual arch a user could download > boot.iso, live cd, installable DVD, and a few respins. Respins are > going to get linked to a spins site, the torrents and public mirrors > site will be linked to as well. So the real question is what do we > 'suggest' our default install be? > > 1) Live CD: Can't upgrade, do package selection or specify install method. > 2) DVD: isn't live (duh :) but requires DVD burner and drive to do > installs. > 3) boot.iso: a little too advanced for causal users, etc. > > So which one do we link to directly from get-fedora? The public mirror > list will be there as it was in the past. livecd - you can do pkg selection after you're installed and it lets you 'try before you buy' -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
