Hi Michael,
Reorx wrote:
Todd & Ricky;
Gentlemen - thank you both for your quick replies.
You're quite welcome. I wish we had better answers to give you.
Below Todd said > "Unfortunately, the problem is that the
documentation is out of date for Fedora 11..." As a potential new
user, I think that a "state of the art" operating environment
shouldn't have "out of date" documentation...
What can be done to fix it?
I think that what is needed is a Windows tool that we can recommend
for Windows users which can verify SHA-256 hashes. I don't think
there are any currently. Until that happens, there isn't a very good
way to fix that documentation. If a good sha256sum for Windows isn't
built or located soon, the documentation should probably be modified
to note that it is not applicable to Fedora 11.
I took the liberty of burning the .ico onto a CD using Roxio 5 (the
documentation gives directions for Roxio 7 among others) and have
successfully booted to it. It's a interesting environment although
runs pretty sssllllooooooowwwwwllllyyyy from a CD ROM... I am going
to try to install it to a UFD - it should perform much better from a
UFD.
It also works reasonably well from a usb key. The Live USB Creator
tool can take the .iso image you have and put it on a usb key that you
can boot many modern systems with.
https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/
That tool works well from Windows too.
Can either of you give me an idea about how big a "complete
install"
for Fedora 11 is - approximately. My choices for a UFD to install
Fedora 11 onto are 8, 16, 32, or 64 GB.
The Fedora Installation Guide says between 3 and 5 GB is sufficient.
I've not done any complete installs to test that, as there are far
more packages in Fedora than I am able or interested in using.
I tend to give myself 10 GB for the / partition, which accounts for
the packages installed as well as various cache data that is created.
But if you can, try making a live usb key. That's a pretty handy way
to poke around.
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