On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 09:18:28AM -0600, Draciron Smith wrote: > There are still tons of machines out there which do not have a DVD and > especially in third world countries where older hardware is the norm > the price of a DVD reader is going to be as much as the machine they > want to put it into. > > Me personally I have several ancient machines who don't even have EIDE > support and finding a just plain IDE DVD reader would be nearly > impossible. About all they are good for is playing around with and > using as data/print servers but if you require a DVD to install they > become scrap metal. > > Sides if your going to use a DVD what's the point of using a live CD? > Why not just get the full install? Seems kinda pointless. There's still a netinst.iso that's far less than CD sized -- something like 175 MB, I think -- that can be used for a network based installation on a box with only CD capacity available. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com -- docs mailing list docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/docs
