At 10:45 AM +0200 10/23/07, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote: >Tony Nelson wrote: >> At 7:55 AM -0500 10/22/07, Jon Ciesla wrote: >>>> Rahul Sundaram wrote: >>>>> Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Upgrades from F7 to F8 using LiveCD's. Not being able to upgrade to F8 >>>>>> using *just* CDs. >>>>> Now we are talking about an actual problem which wasn't clear to me >>>>> earlier. So if Fedora Project released regular CD's for this release and >>>>> makes live upgrades a supported option from Fedora 9 onwards, do you see >>>>> any need for a regular CD variant in the future? >>>>> >>>> Other then for it's sentimental value, the impressive number of discs >>>> for the Everything spin or laptop-in-the-bush cases, there's no real >>>> need for CD's. The few people that want a customized install with all >>>> kinds of exotic partitioning schemes (or minimal installs) should either >>>> be able to create CDs off the DVD iso or get the CDs from any third >>>> party providing them. >>> A: I have not DVD drives. >> ... >> >> It could be explained better, but "askmethod" allows installation of a DVD >> image with only a (or even no) CD drive, as long as the DVD image is made >> available during the install. I keep mine on C: (sda1,/), but a USB key or >> hard drive would also work. (I have a DVD drive, and I boot the DVD, but >> one can just burn the RescueCD image that comes with the DVD, at least with >> the torrent). > >That's oh so true but askmethod is a long way from "Next, Next, Finish" >which is the way you'd want to able to tell anyone when they ask "How to >install Fedora". Yes. I think "askmethod" should be a standard choice in the installer menus, not a secret command, and it should be explained various places, including the place that says there are no CDs, and the place that says there are DVDs. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
