Fedora17 RC3 Beta Released

#1 4th April 2012, 11:17 PM

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showth...26#post1568926 RC4 Thread

nonamedotc · #2 4th April 2012, 11:56 PM

Oh yeah, I was wondering why the install DVDs were so small? I remember the F16 DVDs to be 3.5 GB. This one is just 2.3 GB?! Any idea?

#3 5th April 2012, 05:17 AM

dunno why there small, best off to Ask on the devel mailing list or the IRC channel

nonamedotc · #4 5th April 2012, 10:41 PM

This is what Andre Robatino said on devel list

Quote:

AFAIK no one has completely figured this out yet. I noticed that the
libreoffice-langpack-* packages are on the F16 DVD but not later, and based on
the average size and number of these that seems to account for about half of the
size difference. Here are links to package lists (sorted by size in 1K-blocks)
for the i386 F16 and F17 Alpha TC1 DVDs (the size reduction happened at Alpha
TC1).

http://robatino.fedorapeople.org/siz...6-i386-DVD.txt
http://robatino.fedorapeople.org/siz...1-i386-DVD.txt

So, basically, no one knows for sure.

#5 6th April 2012, 04:55 AM

not complaining that there small. makes much less on Download Allowance if there smaller.

nonamedotc · #6 6th April 2012, 05:21 AM

I am not complaining either. I am just curious that 1 GB just went away

#7 6th April 2012, 05:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nonamedotc

I am not complaining either. I am just curious that 1 GB just went away

yeah thats a lot, , we'll see how Big it is when the official Beta and the final is

Dutchy · #8 7th April 2012, 04:07 PM

Too bad btrfs isn't in the installer, but GIMP 2.8 makes up for that :P

bigflopper2 · #9 7th April 2012, 05:06 PM

I wouldn't try btrfs, even ext4 isn't that stable

nonamedotc · #10 7th April 2012, 10:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bigflopper2

I wouldn't try btrfs, even ext4 isn't that stable

I am not sure what you mean here? What's the problem with ext4 stability?

**AdamW** · #11 10th April 2012, 03:55 AM

not aware of any issues with ext4.

as to why btrfs is missing, to avoid re-typing all this:

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipe...ch/014159.html

Also, just to keep it straight: this is Beta RC3. The third release candidate of the Beta release.

nonamedotc · #12 10th April 2012, 05:31 AM

Adam, Is the Beta RCs supposed to demand internet connection for installation? If I cancel setting up the network, installer exits!! Otherwise, F17 install in my laptop is very "well behaved".

P.S. I was not sure if this warranted a separate thread and so popped the question here.

phoenixpb · #13 10th April 2012, 10:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nonamedotc

Adam, Is the Beta RCs supposed to demand internet connection for installation? If I cancel setting up the network, installer exits!! Otherwise, F17 install in my laptop is very "well behaved".

P.S. I was not sure if this warranted a separate thread and so popped the question here.

No you don't need internet to install it.

It's installed in my laptop and it's amazing

Works very well.
Very stable and fast.

I love gnome 3.4

nonamedotc · #14 10th April 2012, 03:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by phoenixpb

No you don't need internet to install it.

Did you install from Live CD or DVD? No internet need for installation for Live CD. This internet requirement is only with DVD.

***DBelton*** · #15 10th April 2012, 03:20 PM

DVD doesn't require internet, either.

Now, I have run into an issue in the past where installing using the DVD image required an internet connection if you put the DVD image onto a USB stick and didn't tell it where to find the installation repos, or if you created it in a way other that using the livecd-tools which makes the necessary changes to find the repos.