I think therefore it might be a good idea to make this more prominent then. On the download page (http://fedora.redhat.com/download/#boot) the diskette images are mentioned, but maybe a few small changes should be made, to explain to users the _advantages_ of using diskette images. I think the fact this feature and installation method exists should be trumpeted to users as loudly as possible; surely the bandwidth savings (for both redhat.com and its mirrors) would be fairly large. I don't see any disadvantages to this, unless I'm missing something obvious in which case I await correction ;-)
As an aside, does anyone have access to the download statistics for the images? I'd be interested to see a few figures :-)
--Jon Atkinson
Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 18:41, Jim Cornette wrote:
Jeremy Katz wrote: I've done the floppy install (series of 4 floppies) of Debian before. I liked the network install, though Debian didn't meet my particular needs. I also downloaded and burned a whole series of CDROMs and it only used the first CD. (A big waste, but a learning experience). I think that their other concept of selecting desired programs that then create your customized installations is a good approach, if dependencies could be met through the selector.
It might serve Fedora to have such a capability, though it sounds like it would be a nightmare to implement successfully.
It's there. If you boot with the floppy image (boot.img + drvnet.img from the images/ directory), then you can do an ftp install with just 2 floppies instead of four :)
Instead of the installation option being kind of hidden, it would be nice to see it available as a choice when the first disc booted up. Alternatively, a credit card model with just ftp / http installation starting might be a good idea. I heard mention of a boot.iso, so it must already exist and is or can be offered within the regular directory that contains the usual 6 discs. ( rpms, srpms)
I don't see how this is hidden... If you boot with regular CDs, then the right thing to do is go ahead and use them because that's what the 99% case is going to want. You can bypass the autocd detection (boot with 'linux askmethod') -- all of this is in the syslinux help screens :/
boot.iso is located in the images/ directory and is an approximately 4 meg image that you can burn to CD and start an install with. Maybe putting it in the isos directory instead of just the tree would help raise the visibility here.
Cheers,
Jeremy
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