Where to get Fedora 8 CDs

[Kam Leo]

2008/1/19 vamythguy <vamythguy at gmail.com>:
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> On Jan 19, 2008 7:33 PM, David Timms <dtimms at iinet.net.au> wrote:
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> > William Estrada wrote:
> > >  I installed from an ISO image on a USB hard drive. Very easily done.
> > > Make sure the name is the same. The install process will ask you where
> > > to find the Packages and you just select local hard drive.
> > then select the /dev/sd-whatever of the usb drive.
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> > > You boot from the cd.
> > rescue cd that is; it has the anaconda installer on it, that gets the
> > install process started.
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> > > I don't remember if you need to supply 'askmethod'
> > > on the boot command line or not?
> > When the installer can't find the whole DVD of packages, I think it does
> > that automatically.
> >
> > DaveT.
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> I'm having the same issue - is it not possible to boot from the DVD?

The F8 DVD is bootable. The drive on your system might not be able to
read the medium that you are using. If the medium you used is DVD-R or
DVD+RW switch to DVD+R.