Do people still install from CDs ?

Bill Davidsen davidsen at tmr.com
Fri Jan 18 18:33:16 UTC 2013


Ondrej Majerech wrote:
> 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.
>
> I installed F17 from the DVD because I had problems with the liveusb-creator
> contraption -- at that time, I had a FreeBSD and a Windows computers, and
> couldn't get liveusb-creator to create a bootable image from either of these.
> Might have been a bug that's fixed now, might have been my fault; I don't know,
> frankly.
>
Live-CD image + unetbootin -> Live-USB

Live USB (or CD) creator is another thing completely, useful but with a serious 
learning curve!

> I installed F18 from the netinstall image just because I knew that it would just
> work and thought it would be easier to simply waste another CD than to mess with
> the liveusb-creator thingy once again.
>
> I have to say, though, that I always wondered why Fedora Project doesn't offer
> official USB images. It seems a little backward to me -- especially since
> installing Fedora is the only thing I've ever used a CD drive for in the past
> six months, and I never used those burned CDs more than once.
>
See above, same image, just write it to the USB.

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Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
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