I don't have a DVD drive in my machine but I'd like to try Fedora 7. I can't find a link to the .iso files - can someone point me at them?

thanks,

nbc

they don't exist yet as fc7 hasn't been released. should be out 1st of june now by all accounts.

Final Fedora 7 release candidate available. Fedora mirrors and BitTorrent are available as well as a LiveCD. It's a release candidate and labeled as 6.93.

That explains why I can't find them Thanks very much,

nbc

It would have been nice if Fedora could have mentioned all this on the download page. After some poking around I came up with this:

If the dvd iso image is downloaded to your local machine, on a separate partition, you can install using that by burning the boot.iso image to a cd, booting from that, type 'linux askmethod' at the prompt and select to install from a hardrive, then point to the dvd iso image.

mount -o loop -t iso9660 [dvd iso image] /mnt/dvd

Or you can serve that mounted directory tree from another server and do it that way.

See this thread, though their mount command is missing 'loop'
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpo...8&postcount=22

useful, but that's nothing to do with the original question...

True - it didn't answer my original question, but my next question would be how do I get it installed, and this fits the bill (I hope). I was out of town for the weekend, but I'll give this a try. Thanks for the help!

nbc

I was addressing the "I don't have a DVD drive in my machine but I'd like to try Fedora 7." part. To do that you need to know a) that there are no CD iso's provided any more, and b) you can still use the DVD iso by mounting it as a loopback device.

Since google returned this thread high on the list of results from my search, which was something like "fedora 7 cd iso images", I was just trying to help out the next guy who had the same problem by putting the answer where it was likely to be easily found.

Can I ask a followup question? I downloaded the dvd .iso, and mounted it in /mnt/dvd/
I can cd /mnt/dvd and the files are there.

I put the following line in /etc/exports:

/mnt/dvd *(ro,insecure,all_squash)

and ran

exportfs -a

Now:
>> exportfs

/mnt/dvd <world>

But on my f7 machine, It asks for the server name and NFS directory - I give it

a.b.c.d
/mnt/dvd

and it tells me it can't mount from that directory

I could use some suggestions on what to look for here...

Thanks very much

nbc

Download a Live-cd from Fedora and use the install program than add what you want or need with yum or package manager.

I know there were live CD's during the test phase, but I can't seem to find a link to a live CD for the release - can you point me at one??

If this keeps up, I'm going to have to consider switching to something I can install...

thanks,

nbc

I found the Live-CD's at Fedora Project Portal under torrents they are listed as Fedora7-live-i686 and Fedora7-KDE-live-i686. Once you boot up you can use the install to hard drive on the desktop. Hope this helps

NFS is a rare and confusing beast. I used http, it's much simpler, then you can do something like this, if you already have a web server running (if you don't, just start thttpd in your /mnt/dvd directory)
If you can browse that directory from your other machine, like "lynx a.b.c.d/fc7/", then you should be good to go.

How come there are no CD isos anymore?

People in some countries, who have no high speed internet, and who do not have, of course, dvd burners would find it difficult to try F7. I think the normal ISO files should be back. They are cheap and they are very handy and helpful to distribute, and costs nothing compared to DVDs in those countries.

H