CD and DVD ISO images

[John Summerfield]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Ed Landaveri wrote:
> 
>> If your computer has no DVD drive and you need to do
>> an installation, do a FTP or NFS install. It'll be
>> faster & cleaner.
> 
> An alternative is to use the KDE Live CD,
> install that, and use "yum groupinstall"
> to install anything more one wants.
> 


Neither helps me give a copy to my mate.
Neither helps install sans network; I've just tried Ubuntu jeos and, 
despite being on a CD, it wants to download more stuff from the 
Internet. Yuck and <plonk>.

The CD-sized images in a DVD solves problems that other techniques do not.

Really, the question is, "Why not?"


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