Dumb Question

examseeker

Dumb question--

When I go to download a Linux distro, even if I choose http, it looks confusing. I see several iso's to download say like fedora1.iso, fedora2.iso, etc. Do I download them all or just the newest? Is there a place to find multiple distro's to download an entire iso?

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dynamik

Like this: http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/fedora/linux/releases/9/Fedora/i386/iso/

You're looking at the CDs. You would probably need to get all of them.

Why don't you just get a DVD: http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora

Otherwise grab a LiveCD if you just want a small download and want to get up and running quickly.

examseeker

Cool.. thanks..

Daniel333

The wording is horrible on some of these Linux downloads.

For your Linux+ I really really recommend you look at CentOS 2.0..3.0 ( http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/2/final/isos/ ) You don't want anything new because the commands have changed. Although these changes are minor in the grand scheme of things to pass a comptia exam you are really gonna need to focus on the trivia.

TravR1

Almost... not such thing as dumb questions. A lot of people might disagree, but nobody can know everything.

liven

I second dynamik on the DVD's....


It takes longer to download, but you have pretty much everything then....


And if you think it is pain downloading lots of cd.s try downloading the full debian set... it is over 20 discs....

Slowhand

Incidentally, this has often-times been an issue for Linux distros, in general: lack of easy-to-read documentation. I'm not trying to knock Linux, (I'm Linux+ certified, after all,) but because of some missing fundamental documentation, I stayed away from using Linux for a long time. Don't be discouraged, just keep forging ahead as you learn. It's a steep climb sometimes, figuring out what to do next, from downloading, to installing, to troubleshooting and administration, but it does pay off in the end.

liven

Slowhand wrote:

Incidentally, this has often-times been an issue for Linux distros, in general: lack of easy-to-read documentation. I'm not trying to knock Linux, (I'm Linux+ certified, after all,) but because of some missing fundamental documentation, I stayed away from using Linux for a long time. Don't be discouraged, just keep forging ahead as you learn. It's a steep climb sometimes, figuring out what to do next, from downloading, to installing, to troubleshooting and administration, but it does pay off in the end.

This is a very good point.


And like everything in life, once you go through it, it just gets easier and easier.



I did just think of something.

I usually run linux on my older boxes, because it runs so well on less resources. With that in mind, often I have a DVD media and only have CDrom in my old boxes.

Couple of easy ways to deal with this.

1) download the CDs...
2) setup an NFS server and use a Live CD to get started

It is really smart to have a live CD on hand anyway. Can be useful for security and repairs.