[mirror-admin] Seeking Fedora 8 i386 CD images
William F. Maton Sotomayor
wmaton at ryouko.imsb.nrc.ca
Wed Jun 11 17:53:21 EDT 2008
Matt, JH, thanks very much for the clarification and pointers, most
appreciated. I forwarded off the suggestions you provided and hopefully
the user will be on his way!
Again, thanks
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Matt_Domsch at Dell.com wrote:
> The "Fedora Unity" subproject did produce CD ISOs of F8 and F9. Look at
> http://fedoraunity.org/.
>
> Remember, if they have a network connection, they can use the "boot.iso"
> file on F8, "netinst.iso" on F9, burn that small file to a CD, boot to
> it, and do a network install for the rest of the bits. These are
> located in the releases/X/Fedora/$arch/images/ directory.
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
> --
> Matt Domsch
> Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
> linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mirror-list-d-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:mirror-list-d-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of J.H.
> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 4:34 PM
> To: wmaton at ryouko.imsb.nrc.ca; A private discussion group for official
> mirrors of ftp.redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Seeking Fedora 8 i386 CD images
>
> I am reasonably confident that these images were never generated, as I
> believe with Fedora 7 or so they stopped showing up to mirrors. If you
> need to install on a system that doesn't have a DVD drive, I would
> suggest something like a usb stick, network install or something
> similar.
>
> - John 'Warthog9' Hawley
>
> On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 17:30 -0400, William F. Maton Sotomayor wrote:
>> Greetings all,
>>
>> I have a user looking to install Fedora 8 (yes, specifically
> that
>> version) but is unable to locate CD ISO images for i386. (CDROM
> drives
>> only, no DVDs anywhere.)
>>
>> If anyone has these, drop me a note offline please.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> wfms
>>
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wfms
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