Finding #f42

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I’m fighting installation issues with Workstation 43. After a couple of days of booting and tapping F2, I decided to try a workaround: Install 42 and upgrade. Sounds like a great plan, but as this thread notes, it’s not clear from the Downloads page where to find the install kit for older versions. It seems like an oversight not to have an easily-found pointer to the archive.

But wait! There’s LESS!

The archive page at Index of /pub/archive/fedora only has versions up to 41! Did someone forget to update the archive?

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Hello @samscott and welcome.

https://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/ contains only archived releases, that is, releases that reached End Of Life (that don’t receive updates anymore).
Due to the fact that Fedora Linux 42 is still supported [1], you will not find it there.

I don’t know if there are friendlier places, but you can grab any version of Fedora Linux from any mirror: https://mirrormanager.fedoraproject.org/mirrors/Fedora

Or another link is: https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/42/ (it will redirect you to the more suitable mirror).

  1. Fedora Linux Release Life Cycle :: Fedora Docs ↩︎

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Ah! Thanks for that explanation!

That one’s not booting this Dell box either, even though it worked on my ancient HP laptop. I’m beginning to wonder about drivers and firmware. The saga continues.

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Learned something else! Media Manager gives the option of loading currently supported versions. At the present time it offers to load either 42 or 43. Live and learn!