alternative official Fedora Core 1 install media iso images are now available on bittorrent. Please take a look: http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/ DVD ISO: http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/Yarrow-i386-DVD.torrent 2 disk official install set: http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/Yarrow-publisher-i386.torrent
These iso images are not being made available through the official download server at this time, due to space and official mirroring policy concerns. But they are official media images, so they can be redistributed under the same conditions as the original 3 cd iso set.
The Yarrow-publisher 2 cd set, is intended for publishers who can only fit 2 cds into their books. For example, the book Official Fedora Companion by Nicholas Petreley, Red Hat Press. The release notes in the Yarrow-publisher isos details what has been removed from the standard 3 cd collection.
UNOFFICIAL NOTE FROM JEF: I'm now going to express my personal opinion that users should NOT download the publisher-edition to use for installs. I would like to encourage users to continue to use download and use the 3-cd set or the new dvd iso image to ensure they get the full Fedora Core experience. The Publisher-edition is being made available, for completeness, and I'm sure some end-users out there might think the 2-cd set is a shortcut to getting an an install up and going. But please I encourage you to take the time to download the full 3-cd set instead or the dvd image to make sure you get the best possible experience. If you do not have the bandwidth to effectively download the full 3 cd set or the dvd image, please take a look at http://fedora.redhat.com/download/vendors.html and purchase inexpensive install media from the approved vendor list.
NOTE FOR THE -DEVEL LIST FROM JEF: There has been some (un)healthy debate about on this list about slimming Core down to 2 cds. And i want to express my $0.01 opinion that i don't think the Publisher edition should be looked on as a solution to the issue being debated. I don't think having 2 sets of cd images is really a good idea..i think its a horrible idea actually. That being said, i think its important to have the Publisher edition and the dvd edition freely available for download, since vendors are using and selling these editions, so i asked the Fedora leadership for them and I asked the dulug bittorrent maintainer to host them, and now without any delay or arguments at all they have been made available to the community.
-jef"your welcome, please do not use the publisher edition"spaleta