FC4 state of affairs and FC5

[Jeff Spaleta]

On 9/7/05, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> There really are two discussions going on here, one is about installer
> updates and one is about packing updated RPMs. They may have differing
> solutions, for example, it would be possible to provide the complete
> installer as an image for a USB memory stick, this would allow someone
> who hit an installer bug to get a fixed installer. Many systems can
> boot off of USB memory sticks... at least that would help some people.

There have already been examples of installer images..without the
package payload..being created in response to specific bugreports
about specific broken hardware created by developers as part of
bugzilla activity for fedora releases. for example:
http://www.fedorafaq.org/fc2/#installreboot

Now that there is a process for producing release note errata these
specific boot image fixes like the c3boot-2.iso could be publicized
more.

-jef