Bug 1044578

Summary:	F20 won't fit on a CD: don't imply that it does
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora Documentation	Reporter:	D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh>
Component:	fedora-websites	Assignee:	Fedora Websites Team <web-members>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Websites Team <web-members>
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Version:	devel	CC:	cristian.ciupitu, kraymond, nman64, robyduck, web-members
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Description D. Hugh Redelmeier 2013-12-18 15:33:07 UTC

Description of problem:
https://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora mentions burning a CD or DVD several places.  Since Fedora-Live-Desktop-x86_64-20-1.iso is way too big for a CD this is misleading.  Not good for a user's first exposure to Fedora.

Many old machines may not have a DVD reader.  Knowing that a CD won't suffice could save people from wasting time.

Comment 1 D. Hugh Redelmeier 2013-12-18 15:43:35 UTC

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/19/html/Installation_Guide/sn-making-media.html appears to be quite precise and accurate on this point.

A CD can be used for a netinst image.  That's not a beginner level tool and deserves at most a footnote on the get-fedora page.

Comment 2 Kevin Raymond 2013-12-18 16:06:27 UTC

I think we should bin all our CDs and just use usb dongle.
What about replacing CD references to USB dongle?

Comment 3 Cristian Ciupitu 2014-01-03 00:22:30 UTC

Or just optical disc or portable media. After all even when the image size was smaller than 700 MBs, there were still CDs with a capacity of only 650 MBs.

Comment 4 Robert Mayr 2014-01-16 11:28:10 UTC

The informations given in the the 'get-fedora' page, where we mention burning a CD or DVD, are correct IMHO. The DVD image is for a DVD and the netinstall image can be used on a CD. I can't find any wrong reference in live images, we mention always to use also a USB Stick of 1GB+ (in the right sidebar).

We had this issue months ago, when we had below the download button a "CD/DVD image size", but this has been fixed.

I'm going to close this as "not a bug", if you still feel we can improve the 'get-fedora' page, please open a ticket in our Websites Trac:
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-websites/