Clean Installs are Remarkable

[Joel Rees]

On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Fedora User <fedoradch at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:04:00 +0900
> Joel Rees <joel.rees at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I generally don't do install from DVD because there will always be the
>> first yum update after the install, to kill a bit of time. I use the
>
> Actually, you can enable the update repo with the dvd install. The
> installation will then proceed from the media where possible and yum
> when necessary. Thus the newly installed Fedora is already updated.

Well, now that you mention it, I think that's the default these days.
It's been so long since I installed from DVD, I'd forgotten.

However, on a 1M ADSL connection, downloading the netinstall saves a
lot of download time. That'll be important for people whose ISPs are
bandwidth-capped, too.