Do people still install from CDs ?

Rick Stevens ricks at alldigital.com
Fri Jan 18 18:15:20 UTC 2013


On 01/18/2013 09:54 AM, Ondrej Majerech issued this missive:
> On 18 January 2013 18:20, Frank Murphy <frankly3d at gmail.com
> <mailto:frankly3d at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:14:49 +0000
>     Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net <mailto:gayleard at eircom.net>> wrote:
>
>      > Do most people install Fedora from CDs?
>
>     Live discs, as distinct from CD
>
>
> Live discs aren't CDs? I always burned a live image onto a CD and then
> put that into a CD/DVD drive. Is there a way to stuff a live disc into a
> USB slot on a computer wihout an optical drive? I must have missed that
> option because I certainly would have loved to do that.

The live media spins of Fedora are well over 700MB. A CD can only hold
about 700MB max on special media (about 470MB for standard media), so
no, they're not CD images for most folk.

You can put a live media spin on a USB stick using several methods and
they work fine--assuming your hardware can and will boot a USB stick.
Not all will.
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