HELP!About download FC4 images

I wonder when this madness started? Mayayana says it's the same for SUSE, you'll need all of the CDs for installation. I haven't looked at the Red Hat installer since 5.x, but I remember that was definitely only one CD!

Certainly, all of the Linux and BSD distributions I've installed require only the first CD of the set, buttuming they have more than one. The right way would be to have enough on CD1 to get a base system installed plus enough extra programs to download anything else you want. Then you'd have less popular packages on each CD further on in the set. (Yes, I think the way Debian does it is the "right" way.) A separate 'documentation' or 'internationalisation' CD isn't uncommon, but I think that's a mistake.

I downloaded a bunch of distributions a few months ago, including Fedora, but only got the first CD of each distribution because "That's all I need, the rest of it can come off the 'Net". The Fedora documentation isn't very good on this, it just says (a) you should download all of the ISO images, (b) but you can do a 'minimal' install which is quite small. I can't believe the minimal install would grab a package from CD1, another from CD3, another from CD4...

It turns out they don't need to host the ISO, you can get it from Bittorrent trackers hosted by places like Piratebay.org or Torrentspy.com. It's unusual to see a corporate behemoth like MS relying on this for distribution of their software, but Windows seems fairly popular so I suppose it must be working for them. ;-)

-- Andrew Preater