Installing F7 by CD and not by DVD

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sat Jun 2 17:34:38 UTC 2007


Stanley A. Klein wrote:
> I have a 500 Mhz Pentium machine that runs FC5 very well.  I installed it
> using the multi-CD set.
> 
> I can NOT put a DVD drive on the machine, because the minimum speed for
> DVD drives is around 800 Mhz, based on all the drive boxes I looked at
> when I investigated the matter.
> 
> The only way I can do an install of F7 equivalent to what I now have with
> FC5 is to have a multi-CD equivalent of the DVD.

There are several choices here:

Use the Live CD images

Use the boot.iso/rescue.iso and do a network installation from http/ftp/nfs

Use boot.iso/rescue.iso, put the DVD image in the hard disk in one 
partition and install it another partition.

Rahul




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