FC3 snapshot/updated ISOs?

[Gaspar Bakos]

Hi,

I am trying to figure out the optimal way of installing FC3 (NOT FC4),
which is now ~7months old, and there have been plenty of upgrades.

Is there any more efficient way than:
1. installing FC3 with the _original_ ISO images
2. doing a massive update?

I am trying to eliminate step #2..
I wonder, for example, are there ISO images which contain all the
upgrades and bug fixes for the past 7 months?

Any pointer to such ISOs would be helpful.
Or, alternatively... how hard it is to create them for myself from the
CD sources?

One possible answer to the problem would be; why not install FC4?
I am hesitant, as i have a couple of other computers with FC3
/up-to-date/, and would like to maintain full consistency between them.
Also, i guess FC4 does not only contain all the updates & bug fixes
from FC3, but also implements many new things, some potentially
instable.

Cheers
Gaspar

[William Hooper]

Gaspar Bakos wrote:
> I wonder, for example, are there ISO images which contain all the
> upgrades and bug fixes for the past 7 months?

Non official, but you might find someone has posted some.
> Any pointer to such ISOs would be helpful.
> Or, alternatively... how hard it is to create them for myself from the
> CD sources?

Depends on what your objection to doing the upgrade after the install. 
Either way you have to download all the needed updates, so you won't save
on bandwidth either way.  If you already have the updates downloaded,
actually applying them won't take to long at all.  And you are doing this
for just one machine?
> One possible answer to the problem would be; why not install FC4?
> I am hesitant, as i have a couple of other computers with FC3
> /up-to-date/, and would like to maintain full consistency between them.

If you have multiple machines, a local mirror of the updates makes sense
anyway.

[Kevin Waterson]

This one time, at band camp, "William Hooper"  wrote:
> Gaspar Bakos wrote:
> > I wonder, for example, are there ISO images which contain all the
> > upgrades and bug fixes for the past 7 months?
>
> Non official, but you might find someone has posted some.

Whats the point, I cant even get it to install because it does
not like my SCSI CD drive.

Kevin

[William Hooper]

Kevin Waterson wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, "William Hooper" 
> wrote:
> > Gaspar Bakos wrote:
> > > I wonder, for example, are there ISO images which contain all the
> > > upgrades and bug fixes for the past 7 months?
> >
> > Non official, but you might find someone has posted some.
>
> Whats the point, I cant even get it to install because it does
> not like my SCSI CD drive.

Perhaps you can start your own thread discussing the issue.  Be sure to
include the bugzilla bug number and a description of your hardware.

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sun, 31 Jul 2005, William Hooper wrote:
> Kevin Waterson wrote:
> > This one time, at band camp, "William Hooper" 
> > wrote:
> > > Gaspar Bakos wrote:
> > > > I wonder, for example, are there ISO images which contain all the
> > > > upgrades and bug fixes for the past 7 months?
> > >
> > > Non official, but you might find someone has posted some.
> >
> > Whats the point, I cant even get it to install because it does
> > not like my SCSI CD drive.
>
> Perhaps you can start your own thread discussing the issue.  Be sure to
> include the bugzilla bug number and a description of your hardware.

Be sure to search for dups before filing a bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=163262

[Les Mikesell]

On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 17:49, Kevin Waterson wrote:
> > Gaspar Bakos wrote:
> > > I wonder, for example, are there ISO images which contain all the
> > > upgrades and bug fixes for the past 7 months?
> >
> > Non official, but you might find someone has posted some.
>
> Whats the point, I cant even get it to install because it does
> not like my SCSI CD drive.

The k12ltsp project respins the fedora isos, adding the ltsp packages
and a few other things.  You can install it without the extras if
you want a more or less straight fedora system.  As a side effect
of testing the addon packages the release is somewhat later than
the base fedora and the updates available at the time are rolled
in.  The one based on FC3 would be k12ltsp4.2.1 and it appears to
have been released on 4/21/05 - I'm not sure it that is far enough
along to solve your problem but it might be worth a try.  Also,
if you have another machine, you could probably do an NFS install
so the kernel booted from the CD would not have to go back and
read the drive.

http://k12ltsp.org/download.html

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