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I have downloaded the 5 images for Fedora Core 5, from fedora.redhat.com. Disks 3 and 4 are too large for a cd, and i do not have a dvd burner. suggestions?

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OP downloaded the five Fedora Core 5 images and found that disks 3 and 4 wouldn’t fit on the available CDs. Several replies already touched on CD capacity (, ), burning the ISO as an image (), and a network install idea (). The following adds practical, low-effort alternatives and precautions for anyone who lands on this thread later.

Use a network-based installer: a small “boot/netinstall” ISO that fits on a single CD will start the installer and fetch the packages from a Fedora mirror over HTTP/FTP/NFS. Steps in brief: obtain the small boot ISO, verify its checksum (for example with md5sum), burn the ISO as an image, boot the machine and choose network install, then point the installer at a mirror. This removes the need for disks 3 and 4 entirely (good when a fast, stable Internet connection is available).

Create a USB installer or use PXE: write a suitable installer image to a USB stick (or use tools that convert live ISO to USB). Ensure the target BIOS supports USB boot; if not, a tiny CD with Plop Boot Manager can chainload USB. PXE/TFTP boot from another LAN machine is another diskless option for environments with multiple machines. Caution: writing images with low-level tools will overwrite the chosen device—double-check device names.

When network/USB methods aren’t feasible, borrowing an external DVDRW or temporarily fitting a DVD burner (what ultimately did) is the simplest route. Final notes: always verify checksums before burning, burn ISOs as images not as ordinary files, and prefer a supported Fedora release for security—FC5 is long out of support.

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Member Avatar for TheNNS

like i said in the other post, those images will fit in a cd becuase cd's are bigger than what they advertise.

Member Avatar for John A

I bought a spool of CDs, and their capacity is 750 MB. This images will fit on a disk like this. If yours don't work (the CD burning program complains about lack of space), then buy 2 750 MB CDs.

Member Avatar for josedias

Try to use nero burning to do it, its required the DVDRW Drive

best regards
jose

Member Avatar for PirateTUX

I know this might be a little late, but I thought I would reply, just in case. Please take a look at my blog entry on installing Fedora Core "the easy way". If you have a good solid high-speed connection to the internet on the machine that you're trying to install on, this might help you out quite a bit.

Member Avatar for jbennet

make sure that you are burning them as isos too and not as files

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This is kinda late, but I haven't had time to respond to this post:

Thank you all for your suggestions, but when I got my new laptop, it came with a DVDRW drive, so I burned FC5 and 6 onto DVDs and installed them on my desktop.

Thanks again
-- linux

Member Avatar for jbennet

why did you bother with both 5 and 6?

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