Where to get Fedora 8 CDs

[vamythguy]

On Jan 20, 2008 12:52 PM, vamythguy <vamythguy at gmail.com> wrote:

>  On Jan 20, 2008 8:51 AM, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at panet.co.yu> wrote:
>
> > On Sunday 20 January 2008 02:56, Kam Leo wrote:
> > > 2008/1/19 vamythguy <vamythguy at gmail.com>:
> > > > 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.
> >
> > There is another possibility. Your drive may be of the kind that does
> > read the
> > dvd media, but *does not* boot from it. The easiest way out of this
> > situation
> > is to burn a rescue cd, start the installation, and then choose the
> > option to
> > install from dvd. The installer will then ask you to put the F8 dvd in
> > the
> > drive, and read it no problem, once it is already booted.
> >
> > Best, :-)
> > Marko
> >
> >
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>
> I'll probably have to go this route.  It's a DVD+R iso burned using Roxio
> that I can read just fine if I boot into linux from some other CD.
>

Looking into this further, i may have to skip this altogether.  My laptop
has a Broadcom 4311 wifi card and support seems half-baked at best....
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