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  • From: neshura <neshura@gmail.com>
  • To: pcplantdb <pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [pcplantdb] test post and request for help finding Linux Fedora distro on ibiblio
  • Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 22:34:57 -0500

[ ] FC4-i386-disc1.iso 06-Jun-2005 22:54
635M
[ ] FC4-i386-disc2.iso 06-Jun-2005
22:55 638M
[ ] FC4-i386-disc3.iso 06-Jun-2005
22:56 638M
[ ] FC4-i386-disc4.iso 06-Jun-2005
22:57 630M

are what you want. I wouldn't spring for Red Hat unless you've got a
compelling reason, like you want a support contract. I just installed
one upgrade and one fresh install of FC4 and it was pretty much
trouble-free.

Just make sure to run yum update once you've finished installing --
there are a bunch of new pkgs since FC4 was frozen.



On 1/5/06, Lawrence F. London, Jr. <lfl@intrex.net> wrote:
> is this list still working?
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 21:51:46 -0500 (EST)
> From: Larry London <lflj@metalab.unc.edu>
> To: pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Linux Fedora distribution download from ibiblio
>
>
> Fedora was recommended and as free download from ibiblio.
>
> Using Lynx I've surfed to:
> http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/fedora/linux/core/
>
> Index of /pub/linux/distributions/fedora/linux/core
>
> Index of
> /pub/linux/distributions/fedora/linux/core
>
> Icon Name Last modified Size
> Description
>
> [DIR] Parent Directory -
> [DIR] 1/ 30-Nov-2005 10:02 -
> [DIR] 2/ 08-Nov-2004 11:58 -
> [DIR] 3/ 03-Nov-2004 18:00 -
> [DIR] 4/ 09-Jun-2005 12:41 -
> [DIR] development/ 04-Jan-2006 02:52 -
> [DIR] test/ 22-Nov-2005 09:14 -
> [DIR] updates/ 07-Jun-2005 11:29 -
>
> Going to:
> http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/iso/
>
> I find:
> Index of
> /pub/linux/distributions/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/iso
>
> Index of
> /pub/linux/distributions/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/iso
>
> Icon Name Last modified
> Size Description
>
> [DIR] Parent Directory -
> [ ] FC4-i386-SRPMS-disc1.iso 06-Jun-2005
> 22:58 612M
> [ ] FC4-i386-SRPMS-disc2.iso 06-Jun-2005
> 22:59 612M
> [ ] FC4-i386-SRPMS-disc3.iso 06-Jun-2005
> 23:00 612M
> [ ] FC4-i386-SRPMS-disc4.iso 06-Jun-2005
> 23:01 612M
> [ ] FC4-i386-disc1.iso 06-Jun-2005
> 22:54 635M
> [ ] FC4-i386-disc2.iso 06-Jun-2005
> 22:55 638M
> [ ] FC4-i386-disc3.iso 06-Jun-2005
> 22:56 638M
> [ ] FC4-i386-disc4.iso 06-Jun-2005
> 22:57 630M
> [ ] FC4-i386-rescuecd.iso 06-Jun-2005
> 22:52 84M
> [ ] SHA1SUM 07-Jun-2005
> 13:26 871
>
> Apache/2.0.46 (Red Hat) Server at distro.ibiblio.org Port 80
>
>
> These ISO's have the latest dates and smaller file sizes. I assume I
> download a series of ISO's and burn them to CD.
> Which group in the above list do I download?
>
> Or should I just spring for a copy of Red Hat?
>
> Thanks for any assistance.
>
> Happy New Year,
>
> Lawrence
>
>
>
>
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