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Fedora Core 5 Re-spins Available

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the slight-return dept.

Lxy writes "The Fedora Community released re-spins of Fedora Core 5 last Thursday. What's a respin you ask? To put it simply, all the latest updates have been patched into the install CDs, eliminating the need for a long download process after installing. You can read the press release here and of course nab the torrents here."

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  1. Just DVDs by Kelson · · Score: 2, Informative

    From what I can tell, they've only produced respins of the DVD images. So if you don't have a DVD burner, or if you need to install on machines that only have CD players, you'll still need to download 2 months' worth of updates.

  2. Re:Great... by Eric+Smith · · Score: 2, Informative

    The updates are now WAY over 50-100MB. I haven't checked lately, but I think there's more than a full CD's worth.

  3. Re:No by Kelson · · Score: 5, Informative

    What the hell has Red Hat ever done for the Linux community?

    What, aside from from contributions to the kernel, employing Linux developers (Alan Cox, anyone?) pushing the development of the ext3 filesystem... Grab the latest kernel source and grep -r for @redhat.com -- you might be surprised.

    Oh, sorry, you didn't actually want an answer to that, did you?

    "All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"

  4. Re:Cruft, Cruft and more bloody Cruft! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Uh... You mean like the network installation option? Like the one I use almost daily for my installs?

    Using pxe-boot, from tftp server, launching the initrd and kernel files from the *shock horror* pxeboot images folder! You can also boot the cd and select http/ftp/etc install or create floppies... Plenty of options.

    Some files: http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/fedora/linux/co re/5/i386/os/images/pxeboot/

    We mirror the entire fedora tree locally each night, and install from that. It's very much do-able, google away!

  5. Re:Cruft, Cruft and more bloody Cruft! by ZG-Rules · · Score: 3, Informative
    Ummm... download CD1, boot it with:
    linux askmethod
    and point it to either an HTTP/FTP/NFS server, HD archive or the CDs... That's been supported on almost every RedHat I've ever seen and certainly is on FC5 and RHEL4. Just because you don't know how to do it doesn't mean it can't be done. I for one do it almost daily because we have a massive network-install infrastructure.
  6. Unfortuantely it's political not technical by dbIII · · Score: 2, Informative
    It would be great if someone created a burn of FC with all the stuff you add in later anyway, like java, mp3 support, mplayer, etc.
    If you are in the USA you can help fix this - let your representatives know that the laws governing mp3 and DVD playing software are a pointless impediment. Until then Fedora since it is based in the USA must comply with weird US copyright laws that would even make bundling of Java or Acrobat too much of a headache. Meanwhile the rest of us can look at www.fedorafaq.org and not worry about breaking any strange laws that do not apply to us.