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    A new DVD is needed, the current one is already obsolete

    I upgraded from Fedora 12 to Fedora 13 yesterday by using the install/upgrade DVD. When I updated the system after the upgrade, it downloaded 1.3 GB of packages!!!

    I think 1.3 GB of updates is a huge amount for a system that has been published just a while ago!

    Would it be possible for the Fedora Team to publish an updated installation DVD? It would save a lot of upgrading time by eliminating a huge update!

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    Re: A new DVD is needed, the current one is already obsolete

    Surely the update is smaller than a new full DVD?

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    Re: A new DVD is needed, the current one is already obsolete

    Yes of course. But if someone had built a new installation/upgrade DVD with the latest packages the 1.3 GB update would not have been needed at all!

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    Re: A new DVD is needed, the current one is already obsolete

    Ah ok. Don't think you'll get much joy on a forum of users though and it's probably not at the top of the dev's lists either... :-)

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    Re: A new DVD is needed, the current one is already obsolete

    There is only ONE release per version, although from time to time http://torrent.fedoraunity.org/ will release a respin with more up-to-date packages. Fedora changes so rapidly that there's major changes every week. Probably why, if you visit the FedoraProject site, you'll see all the release info points toward the Live CD versions and not the DVD. Fewer initial packages = fewer initial updates.
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    Re: A new DVD is needed, the current one is already obsolete

    Hi,

    Fedora usually provides a "net installation CD", in short "netinst". It only has a boot loader and installer, all actual packages are retrieved from the net and are thus you directly get the latest version available.

    WWell,

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    Re: A new DVD is needed, the current one is already obsolete

    Quote Originally Posted by assen
    Fedora usually provides a "net installation CD", in short "netinst". It only has a boot loader and installer, all actual packages are retrieved from the net and are thus you directly get the latest version available.
    Preupgrade would load only the latest packages as well. I'm upgrading, not installing.

    I have five machines to upgrade, and because of the large volume and a slow Internet connection I downloaded one install/upgrade DVD. Then I upgraded one machine and then updated it. I did not just update it with "yum update" but I yumdownload'ed the new packages (1.3 GB!) and saved them to a USB memory, so that I could upgrade and update several machines with a single download.

    I remember that when I did the same thing with Fedora 12, then after couple of weeks after publishing of Fedora 12 the update size was about 800 GB...

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    Re: A new DVD is needed, the current one is already obsolete

    Uhoh, then that's probably true for the CD as well.

    Which means I'm in a steadily rising load of brown stuff . . . :P

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    Re: A new DVD is needed, the current one is already obsolete

    Yet another reason to go with a minimalist install, I guess...
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