| 1 | 4.7 GB (or larger) | All of the software will fit on one disc (which serves as both the boot and installation medium), so this is usually the fastest and most convenient installation option. | |
| CD | 1 | 8 MB (any CD) | A single CD or mini-CD can be used to start a network or hard disk installation. If you will be using CDs for both the boot and installation media, five 700 MB discs are required (see Table 1- 2). |
| USB flash drive | 1 | 8 MB or higher | Requires a Linux system to configure the drive. Useful for network or hard disk installation. The BIOS of some systems will not permit booting from a USB flash key (beware of BIOS versions that permit booting only from a USB floppy or Zip drive). |
| PXE Server (Network Boot) | 1 | 6.5 MB | Requires an existing system to serve as the PXE server (see Lab 10.3, 'Preparing Alternate Installation Media'). |
Once the system has been booted, the rest of the installation software can be on a DVD, several CDs, an existing hard drive partition on the computer (or an external hard disk drive), or an FTP, NFS, or HTTP server. Table 1-2 outlines the requirements.
Table 1-2. Installation media requirements for Fedora Core 6
| Media type | Media count | Size | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| DVD | 1 | 4.7 GB or higher | Same media used for booting. |
| CD | 5 | 700 MB | The images will not fit on 650 MB discs, such as some CD-RWs or old CD- Rs. |
| Network server (HTTP, NFS, or FTP) | 1 | 3.5 GB of disk space on the server | HTTP is the lightest of the three protocols and is often the easiest to set up. |
| Hard disk partition | 1 | 3.5 GB of disk space | Only ext2 and ext3 (Linux) and FAT (Windows/DOS) partitions are supported, on an internal or external disk drive. NTFS and LVM-based partitions will |
1.2.1.3. Creating Fedora Core CDs or DVDs
To create a Fedora Core CD or DVD set, you must obtain the
To download the entire Fedora Core distribution for installation direct from disc, use one of these two procedures:
? Go to the web page http://fedora.redhat.com/Download/mirrors.html and select an HTTP or FTP site for direct download. Select the directory for the desired Fedora Core version number (6), then the directory for your machine architecture (i386, PPC, or x86_64), and then select the
? Use BitTorrent ( http://www.bittorrent.com ) to obtain the files from one of the Fedora torrents listed on http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ .
Some download tools have problems with files over 2 GB in size. Most of the time, these problems affect only the download size, progress, or time-remaining displays during the download process, but some versions of the Lynx browser will not successfully download files over 2 GB. Older versions of
To download only the boot disk ISO (for use with a network or hard disk installation):
? Go to the web page http://fedora.redhat.com/Download/mirrors.html and select an HTTP or FTP site for direct download. Select the directory for the desired Fedora Core version number (6), then the directory for your
