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[Seth Vidal]

On Thu, 5 Nov 2009, David Zeuthen wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 15:37 -0500, Seth Vidal wrote:
>>> Also: Remember the days before live CDs? Back then, about 3+ years ago,
>>> we didn't have any problems asking people to download a whopping six
>>> CDs.
>>>
>>
>> Well, to be fair we didn't tell them download 6 cds. We told them, if they
>> were bandwidth-restricted to download the boot.iso and boot and install
>> via the net talking to a local mirror.
>
> Right, that's true. I remember doing that a lot. IIRC, if choosing a
> minimal install the first two CDs would suffice (if the stars were
> properly aligned I think - ISTR that it broke at one point).
>
> Anyway, people can still do that, right? (honest question, not trolling.
> I don't really know; these days I never use anything but the Live CD to
> install.)

yep. In f11 it's called netinst.

Fedora-11-i386-netinst.iso

for example.

it's 177MB. Which is pretty light weight. It has stage2 on it iirc.

-sv