Fedora™ 7 and Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® Bible

Appendix A. About the Media

If you have a CD-ROM or DVD drive, you can install Fedora 7 from the media that come with this book. Those media include:

• Combined Fedora 7 Install DVD Instead of offering the Fedora 7 Prime DVD (2.8GB), we put together most of the software from the massive Fedora 7 software repository on this DVD (over 8GB). This represents the combination of what was called Fedora Core and Fedora Extras in previous versions of Fedora.

  Note

  Everything except seven games from the complete Fedora 7 repository made it onto our DVD (glest, nexuiz, raidem, sear, torcs, tremulous, and vegastrike). If you want any of those games, use the Package Manager window after Fedora is installed to get them from the Internet.

• Fedora 7 Live/Install desktop CD This is an official live CD from the Fedora project. It boots to a GNOME desktop with a nice variety of applications, regardless of what is installed on your computer's hard disk. You can install the contents of this CD to hard disk by starting the installer icon from the live CD's desktop. Once the software is installed, you can install any other software you need from online repositories.

If you have a drive that supports both DVDs and CDs, use the DVD. It gives you greater options for selecting software and does not require access to online repositories to go beyond a basic desktop system. However, for the average desktop user, the CD set will work well as a starting point for a useable Fedora desktop system.

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