Pete Zaitcev: Torrenting FC-5 ISOs
Pete Zaitcev: Torrenting FC-5 ISOs:
I suppose I can uncover the mystery which bothers dwmw2. The main reason I’m torrenting FC-5 ISOs right now is that making my own ISOs from Rawhide RPMs is too much of a hassle. I would need to have all scripts on tap, which copy RPMs, copy comps or whatever it is that Anaconda needs, and, worst of all, generate images/. And God Forbid I hit a bug in installation. Mr. Jones and Mr. Katz would tell me “your ISO must be screwed, use a normal one”, and they would be right.
Pete, I think dwmw2 downloads trees, burns a boot.iso and does NFS installs. Its probably heaps better than downloading them, and making your own ISOs from the tree. It saves a lot of CDs (or CDRWs) and these installs can magically happen pretty unattended. This is my preferred way of installing.
And Jeremy, Peter and Paul are pretty amazing when it comes to anaconda bugs. Very responsive, and always willing to investigate.
Alas, I do torrent ISOs too, because the PPC torrent tends to not receive much traffic, and I’m doing my bit for the rest…
So how is Fedora Core 5 on G4 Powerbooks? Is it more of a finished product than earlier versions? I have an Oct 2005 G4 Powerbook and I am hoping to try out Linux on it, your article on Fedora Core 3 hinted at lots of minor incompatibilities.