Netinstall download info

[Máirín Duffy]

Hi,

On 09/16/2015 09:12 AM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> Matthew Miller pointed me at this bug:
> <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1263565>
>
> The OP had to drop back to a netinstall when he had a bad experience
> with the KDE spin.  If there are some problems with a spin, certainly
> the responsible SIG can work on solving that.  But in thinking about
> the reporter's comments about finding netinstall: perhaps it would
> make sense for the spin site to include an unobtrusive pointer to
> Workstation or Server netinstall ISO.  This might be analogous to the
> Other Downloads section found on the Server and Workstation download
> pages.  Thoughts?

I don't think it makes sense for individual spins to point to the 
netinstalls: the spins sites set up an expectation you're going to get a 
specific spin, and the netinstall doesn't do that for you without 
additional work.

What I think might work:

- Create a nice & cleanly-designed image listing on top of something 
like download.fpo or alt.fpo with images like netinstalls or DVDs or the 
minimal image that aren't specifically tied to a specific Fedora edition 
/ spin / lab, but are more generically "Fedora."

- Link to this generic download site in the common footers on all of 
these sites, and give a hint/tip about it in the downloads area of the 
edition / spin / lab sites as appropriate.

I do think the level of prominence of the netinstall images makes sense 
on the workstation page despite the fact they are not tightly coupled 
(people had been going to the server page to get netinstall images to 
install workstation before we added those links IIRC.) I don't know that 
netinstall images specifically need that level of prominence on the 
spins download pages. What I'd recommend there instead is just a simple 
link, "Looking for other options to install Fedora?" or something like that.

Does that make sense?

~m