Thomas Cameron wrote: > Travis Arnold wrote: >> Erm I've been using ubuntu recently but would like to use fedora, but am >> not sure how to install, is it best to use live cd, or the dvd install >> medium? > > Either one should work, the DVD route is nice because all of the > packages are right there. LiveCD can require that you install a lot > of stuff over your Internet connection. > >> Also how can I have a seperate home directory? the LVM section >> in the partitioning menu scared me off, I still have the live cd >> downloaded, but not the dvd, shall I just download that instead? > > You'll be faced with the same choices via LiveCD install or DVD > install. LVM is just a way of carving up your partitions into logical > volumes (think sub-partitions, sort of). > > Me personally, I don't really use LVM that much, I just create the > first partition of 100 megs mounted on /boot, a second partition of > about a gig mounted as swap, a third and partition of 8GB mounted as / > and a fourth large-ish partition mounted as /home. > > This is not the One True Partitioning Scheme by any stretch. This is > only what I like to do on my workstation. For a server that is almost > definitely not a good partitioning scheme. > > Thomas > Ok, so I don't even have to use LVM? That is so nice to know. I've looked around on Fedorasolved and I see the article about moving /home but is there another write up possibly dealing with how to instal l with out LVM? the interface doesn't(to me at least) seem quite as intuitive if one doesn't want to go with the defualt sheme. Thanks again Thomas for the help. Travis -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
