Description of problem: Some of the Fedora Live images provided with Fedora 7 and Fedora 8 are larger than a regular CD (700 MB). Please explain in Release Notes or in Installation Guide how to correctly handle this. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 7 Fedora 8 How reproducible: Always. Actual results: Some Fedora Live images are larger than a regular blank CD (700 MB). Expected results: Images should fit on a 700 MB CD or documentation should provide a canonical procedure of burning these images to (common usage) media. Regards, Răzvan
We never refer to them as live "CD". It's always supposed to be live images. The Fedora i686 and KDE i686 live images will fit on a CD, the rest will either have to be on DVD or USB. I don't believe there is any place where the term LiveCD is used that would lead you to think it should fit on a CD.
Hello and thanks a lot, There is no problem about writing the images to DVDs. The problem is that various mainstream Windows CD-burning programs identify them as CD images and refuse to write them on DVD blanks. Since Live images are mainly used by Windows users prospecting to switch to Linux, this is really an issue. IMHO, either giving in docs a step-by-step procedure for burning them on Windows (including a recomendation for a Windows GPLed burning software) or fitting the images on a CD would be the best solution. Regards, Răzvan
(In reply to comment #2) > The problem is that various mainstream Windows CD-burning programs identify them > as CD images and refuse to write them on DVD blanks. Fedora, unfortunately, can do very little to fix bugs in Windows software. (And if it's refusing to write to DVD media because it's ISO9660 instead of UDF, or similar, that's just braindead.) > IMHO, either giving in docs a step-by-step procedure for burning them on Windows > (including a recomendation for a Windows GPLed burning software) or fitting the > images on a CD would be the best solution. Assigning to release notes, although there may be very little that can be done here.
Sorry for disturbing you with Windows-related problems. I think that a clear, recommended-by-Fedora procedure of how to burn those disc images, in both Windows and Linux, would be enough. Regards, Răzvan
We already have such a document that gives several examples for use with popular Microsoft Windows disc-burning programs. Please refer to http://docs.fedoraproject.org/readme-burning-isos/ for more information. If you find an error or problem in that document, please feel free to file a specific bug about it. You may also want to visit the documentation or troubleshooting site for your specific Windows software to determine if there are patches or other updates available to fix the problem.