Individual CD iso images for FC8 install

jbrid · #1 15th November 2007, 10:42 AM

Hi All-

I am searching high and low for CD images for a FC8 install. I do not want the LiveCD. I want the regular install but I am only finding iso images for DVD. The laptop that I am installing on only has a CDR drive. I am very surprised that I am posting this question. It seems like many people would need these for installing on old machines. Ideally I would like to use BitTorrent to download.

Or, maybe there is some way to split the DVD iso into smaller pieces?

Thanks for the assistance.

***glennzo*** · #2 15th November 2007, 10:49 AM

Have a look here: http://fedoraunity.org/news-archives...-sets-released

jbrid · #3 15th November 2007, 11:02 AM

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Originally Posted by glennzo

Have a look here: http://fedoraunity.org/news-archives...-sets-released

Yeah. Thanks. I saw that. Honestly, I was trying to avoid that. I don't know what Jigdo is and I didn't want to find out. If that's the only option, I guess I will dive in.

universe_r9 · #4 15th November 2007, 12:03 PM

BitTorrent verygood, veryfast ,I like it!

***glennzo*** · #5 15th November 2007, 12:15 PM

As long as you don't have an ISP the blocks torrents, like, um, Comcast...

***glennzo*** · #6 15th November 2007, 12:24 PM

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Originally Posted by jbrid

Yeah. Thanks. I saw that. Honestly, I was trying to avoid that. I don't know what Jigdo is and I didn't want to find out. If that's the only option, I guess I will dive in.

I'm trying it right now. I don't need the CD's but I installed Jigdo and I'm going to see if I can make it work.

rexbinary · #7 15th November 2007, 02:05 PM

I'm curious. Why do not want to use the Live CD?

jbrid · #8 15th November 2007, 02:21 PM

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Originally Posted by rexbinary

I'm curious. Why do not want to use the Live CD?

Good question...

There are two reasons. One might be due to a misconception.

1. I am under the impression that the 4 GB DVD install is a more complete install than what the 699 MB LiveCD can provide. The laptop that I am using has a non-working ethernet card, so I have way to connect it to the internet. Therefore, I wanted what I believe to be the more comprehensive install package, the DVD.

2. I am installing on an old laptop (Dell C800) with an ATI Mobility M4 video card. This system has proved to be troublesome for the Ubuntu LiveCD because of the display. I am assuming that the Fedora LiveCD may have the same issues. With Ubuntu, I have found that I can at least use a text based installer to get the system loaded and then fiddle with the display configurations at the command line. I still do not have a working Ubuntu install, but that's for another forum.

EDIT: I should add that I am downloading the FC8 LiveCD now and I will give it a try.

jbrid · #9 20th November 2007, 10:40 AM

Update:
I tried the FC8 LiveCD and as expected it does not work. When it loads the screen is very distorted and split into 3 columns. Undoubtedly, this is due to the unsupported video card. Therefore, I cannot install from the LiveCD. If Fedora could provide CD iso images I am sure I could get the installation working.

scottro · #10 20th November 2007, 03:09 PM

Do you need the entire set of CDs? jigdo is really quite easy to use. (Well, I use it on FreeBSD to make various CDs from time to time, not sure how easy or hard it is on other systems.

Follow the guide and see how far it takes you--I think that if you look at it a wee bit slowly, you'll find it quite simple. Whether it's actually faster than torrent, I don't know, I've used it for Debian in the past so wasn't bothered by the thought of using it. I'd say that doing CD1 with it took about 30-45 minutes. (I just made CD1, as I seemed to be unable to add kernel booting options with the boot.iso, probably something I missed.)

lmo · #11 20th November 2007, 03:33 PM

I'm sure somebody can find the cliff notes for using boot.iso and the DVD.iso to install from the DVD from the hard drive.

robatino · #12 20th November 2007, 05:18 PM

I used jigdo to create the CD set from the install DVD. It only required about 20 MB of downloading for the files necessary to describe the layout of the CDs, then was able to extract everything else from the DVD (when prompted, put the DVD in the drive and enter the path "/media").

bingoUV · #13 20th November 2007, 05:31 PM

Download the DVD iso. Mount it. Go to images directory. Find boot.iso there. Burn it to a CD. Boot from the CD. It will then ask you where it can find the DVD iso image. Tell it the partition, and the directory where the iso is located. It will then install as if from DVD.

You could do it with a pen drive too (just use diskboot.img instead of boot.iso) like I did.

scottro · #14 20th November 2007, 05:38 PM

Heh, Robatino, I missed that part--I had the DVD.iso actually, I just didn't feel like burning a DVD. I should have looked a little further into the docs. It's nice that jigdo can create from the DVD image.

robatino · #15 20th November 2007, 05:55 PM

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Originally Posted by scottro

Heh, Robatino, I missed that part--I had the DVD.iso actually, I just didn't feel like burning a DVD. I should have looked a little further into the docs. It's nice that jigdo can create from the DVD image.

I think that if you have the ISO file, you could just give it the path for that instead. You might have to mount the ISO file as a loopback device first so jigdo sees a regular filesystem.