Installing Fedora Core 7 with slinky.

As of FC7 Fedora doesn't distribute CDs any more, but only DVDs.
Old PCs or laptops are rarely equipped with DVD-drives but need CD as install media.

The tool revisor http://revisor.fedoraunity.org/ can be used to create CD images from the FC7-DVD.

Motivation

As a result of increasing file sizes and the decreasing cost of optical and flash media, the floppy disk drive has become obsolete on modern computer hardware. With the disappearance of the floppy disk, support for a floppy disk-booted installation of GNU/Linux distributions is disappearing as well. Some distributions, notably Debian, still provide official support for floppy disk-initiated installations, though no major distribution supports delivery of the entire system on floppy disks.

Motivation

Recent installers for actively maintained distributions are usually implement as bootable CD, DVD and sometimes USB images. Installation optical disks and even preloaded USB keys can be purchased and used for an installation. More common is the practice of downloading an image and writing it to disk or USB key.

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We need to supplement Franz's efforts, first to create a revised script and package list for the base rpm's for f.c.6 and later f.c.7, then to extend the rpm lists to include the graphical environment, both with kdrive and with a normal xorg, plus the network, printing and other sub-lists that Michael had created for the earlier versions.

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a few weeks ago, due to some software upgrade and/or Drupal bug, it became impossible to log in and, consequently, to activate user accounts, add content and so on.

The short answer is that with RULE even relative Linux newcomers should be able to install and set up, with little effort, (Red Hat) Linux on computers where the standard Red Hat install procedure would never work because of RAM or disk space constraints.

A large problem with collecting used hardware for redistribution to developing countries is to register and test the equipment. In this context, a bootfloppy that detects the hardware is needed.

This guide describes how to install Red Hat Linux or Fedora Core using the RULE Slinky Installer, boot floppies and ISO images.

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