Installing F7 by CD and not by DVD

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Jun 4 22:51:32 UTC 2007


Mike McCarty wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Stanley A. Klein wrote:
>>
>>> How do I get a DVD equivalent install from a single Live CD?  I want the
>>> combined Gnome/KDE and all the workstation tools I currently run with 
>>> FC5.
>>>
>>> A network install is not an option for me.  I need the multi-CD set or
>>> equivalent.
>>
>>
>> Then you can either make your own spin or post to fedora-devel list 
>> explaining why the current setup is not usable for you.
> 
> I don't understand. Obviously the Fedora Project is already set
> up to spin CDROM releases. You seem to claim that it is very easy
> for the end-user to make his own respin. Since Fedora is *already*
> set up for that, it should be even easier for Fedora to do that.
> 
> So, if it's so easy, why doesn't Fedora do it, already?

It already does. There are Live CD available. If you are talking about 
regular non Live CD images I have already answered elsewhere in the same 
thread. Mirror push back, duplicate packages in different variants, more 
QA, documentation work, user confusion etc.

Rahul






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