F17 Beta DVD install options

[Timothy Davis]

>
> On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 12:22 -0400, David wrote:
> > On 4/18/2012 11:11 AM, Dan Mashal wrote:
> > > My system is secure. Thanks for your concern.
> > >
> > Fedora 14 is EOL since one month after Fedora 16. Fedora 15 will be EOL
> > one month after Fedora 17. A long time with no security patches of any
> > kind for any package for you.
> >
> > I know the type. 'I use Linux so I'm ten feet tall and bullet proof'.
> Maybe he is like me and has a machine that he can't upgrade.  One of my
> machines has an HPT374 IDE RAID controller in it that hasn't worked for
> years.  Last distro I cleanly loaded was RHEL4 (Whitebox4 actuallu)  I
> managed to brutally hack the kernel in Fedora 10 with an old out of tree
> driver from Highpoint (GPL) to have something a little newer and did it
> again for F11 but a major kernel update along that line changed
> something I couldn't manage to fix.  So that is where that machine stays
> until I finally toss the 4x200GB drives in it for a pair of larger ones
> connected to the onboard SATA plugs that should be supported.
> It is behind a NAT on a home network so I don't worry too much about it
> getting hacked.  Firefox is almost certainly vulnerable but you rarely
> see active attacks in the wild against Linux browsers, especially if you
> don't hang out at dodgy sites.  And if it happens, guess that will be
> the universe saying it is finally time to stop being a cheap bastard and
> buy some new drives.


I can fully appreciate your situation, if aint broke....

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