Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 1st Apr 2006 15:56 UTC, submitted by kaiwai
"Over all, Fedora Core 5 seems to be alot more of a solid distribution than the last time I ran it (FC3), they finally got rid of that nasty up2date that seemed to hang at the worst possibly opportunities - when you're 98% of the way there. The applications also seemed to be tested alot more than previous releases, and the speed as improved substantially, especially with GTK; whether its due to the compile, cairo or some other mystical voodoo I don't understand, what ever the case, the improvement is great. Over all, this is probably the best distribution I've tried; if you're looking for an easy to use, no fuss UNIX-like desktop, look no further than Fedora Core 5."
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Member since:2005-07-06
Why do you think a network installation feature is not there. It has been there for Red Hat Linux in a number of years and in every release of Fedora.
You can download a 6 MB rescue disk or a slightly bitter boot.iso image from the images folder. For example for x86 FC5,
http://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/fedora-core/5/i386//os/images/
burn and in the boot prompt "linux askmethod"
Just read the installation guide which covers this all in detail
http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/fedora-install-guide-en/fc5/
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2005-10-25
Ok, a PC DVD drive is $30 in the UK, but what about those of us with laptop systems?
I have broadband, so my ideal would be a "network install" that lets me install from a single-cd, 100 MB image, and then get whatever else I need with yum.
This would probably save the Fedora project considerable bandwidth usage, at least in my case, since then I'd only be downloading the packages I actually need, rather than all 3 GB of cd ISO images!
Debian already does this, and either yum or apt is a shoe-in for the task - why hasn't this already been done?