fedora-list Digest, Vol 54, Issue 170

[Tim]

On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 23:12 -0600, Lawrence E. Graves wrote:
> I am kind of new at this,

I'll point out, since you must be new at mailing lists too, please do
not reply to digests in that manner.

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Because of the near uselessness of digest replies, and the continual
mis-use of them by respondents, I'd far rather see the mailing list
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> to the two people that are struggling with the installation of Fedora
> 9, it is simpler to install it straight from the website.  I've never
> tried to install it with a disk

You'll need a fast network for that, or not mind putting up with a quite
slow installation, and one that can abort without recovering from any
networking problems.

I don't know how you'd call it simpler, either.  You've got to create
something to start installing and boot from that, then give it the
address for the network location to install from.  That's more
complicated than burning an install disc and booting from it.

-- 
[tim at localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686

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