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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."

7 of 55 comments (clear)

  1. Great... by dhasenan · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now, instead of downloading up-to-the-minute patches after I install, I can download up-to-the-week ISOs before I install! That means rather than an additional 50-100MB, I get to download an entire 4GB DVD image.

    Hold on a minute....

  2. Prepare Yourselves! by Eighen+Indemnis · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's Fedora Core! The *wikkiwikkiwikki* REMIX!
    *cue Puff Daddy dancing around like his pants are falling off*

  3. Other download sites by Yeechang+Lee · · Score: 3, Funny

    Here's some more places you can get Fedora with security updates conveniently added on:

    * Click here
    * or here
    * or here
    * and finally, here (Plenty of servers, so best performance!).

    HTH!

  4. 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?"

  5. 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!

  6. "Fedora Community"? by pete-classic · · Score: 3, Interesting
    The Fedora Community released re-spins of Fedora Core 5


    This seems misleading, since both links go to some unofficial site. Not that "unofficial" is necessarily bad, but I have no idea who these dudes are.

    -Peter
  7. 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.