Ways of distributing Speakup Modified Fedora.

[Albert E. Sten-Clanton]

Hi, Bill!

I'm among those who don't have DVD burners.  I don't know when I'll get one.  If you can make a boot or rescue CD, though, I can install Fedora 8 the only way I ever installed FC6, from a DVD image in my home partition.  If my hard drive's partition table gets screwed up, which has happened before, then I should be able to use GRML to set things right and then install Fedora.  At least, that's my guess.

I note that a few years ago one of the much-touted benefits of Linux was that you could use it on older equipment.  I take it that's one thing you can't say about Fedora or Red Hat any longer.  It becomes less affordable that way.  I know of course that this isn't your doing, and that you've got a problem to solve, but it deserves mention.

Al
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-722-7209" <wacker at octothorp.org>
To: "SPEAKUP Distribution List" <speakup at speech.braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, November 23, 2007 9:46 PM
Subject: Ways of distributing Speakup Modified Fedora.


> Hi all,
> 
>       Starting with the release of Fedora 7 (Moonshine), Red Hat has only 
> posted DVDs of the distro.  For 7, we produced Cd's in addition.  Now 
> that we're getting ready to release the Speakup Modified version of F8, I 
> wonder if we can drop the Cd's as Red Hat has already done.  There is a 
> possible bug in the upstream distribution process causing me to be unable 
> to produce Cd's.  The maintainer of Pungi, the tool we use to build 
> the distro has agreed to take a look at it, but I don't know what he'll be 
> able to do.
> 
>       In addition, we're going to release an x86_64 version this time which 
> will a little more than double the space required to store it all on the 
> server which holds the images for download.
> 
>       Let me know what y'all think.
> 
> 
> 
>   -- Bill in Denver
> 
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