On 4/22/2009 2:13 PM, suvayu ali wrote: > 2009/4/22 David <dgboles@xxxxxxxxxxx>: >> On 4/21/2009 5:10 PM, jackson byers wrote: >>>> if it insists on that, I wasnt prepared for it, >>>> having only sdb6 i was willing to give to f10. >>> I wrote about this the other day but I don't recall ever seeing it show up. >>> First: A Live-CD *does not* install separate packages. A Live-CD writes >>> itself to your hard similar to the way you burn an ISO to a CD. >>> It will *erase your harddisk* and then write itself exactly as it is. You >>> have no choices of anything. >>> You boot the CD. You are looking at the OS running from memory. You decide >>> to install it to your harddrive so you click the install icon. It formats >>> your drive and writes itself to your drive. Exactly as it is on the CD. You >>> reboot, answer a few questions and you are basically done. >>> And *whatever* was on the HD before is gone. Period. >>> The size of the CD it limited but they have put what most people would need. >>> Anything else you install from the online repos. >>> All of that aside I would seriously doubt that you could update a Fedora >>> Core 5 install directly to a Fedora 10 install anyway. Too many years and >>> too many changes. If you do a fresh install the has been updates since the >>> Fedora 10 Live-CD was made. Probably another CD full of them. >>> David >>> --------------- >>>> It formats >>>> your drive and writes itself to your drive. >>>> Exactly as it is on the CD. You >>>> reboot, answer a few questions and you are basically done. >>> yes but that doesnt answer my confusion as to how it chooses >>> the hard drive or harddrive partition to write on. >>> and whether it is forcing LVM on me >>> and whether it is forcing a separate /boot partition. >>> I have two scsi disks, sda, sdb >>> I was trying to point it to my sdb6 >>> it clobbered my sda1 >>> Are you saying liveinstallcd will try to >>> take over my either my entire sda or my entire sdb? >> As I understand the Live-CD installs to the primary (boot) disk. That would >> be sda. It will have a / in sda1 and a swap in sda6. It will be LVM. > All this talk about live CDs got me thinking. If someone wants to get > something not available on the DVD (e.g. XFCE) and have their custom > setup on the local disk, the only way to upgrade is over the network > using preupgrade? Isn't that rather restrictive, specially since a lot > of the users have dual boot machines? > What would be the options if I don't have a reliable high speed > Internet connection? I am asking this as I wanted to get rid of Gnome > completely and have XFCE instead when I upgrade to F11. But going by > this, that seems unattainable. Am I missing something here? There were two, official, Fedora 10 Live-CDs released. One that was GNOME and another one that was KDE. There are some people here that made several different, they are called 'spins', of Fedora 10. And one of the Live-CDs was XFCE, IIRC, but it was only available with Bittorent. Again. IIRC. If you had one of those official CDs, KDE or GNOME, they have to be downloaded by the way, you could install XKCE and use it. It too would have to be downloaded but the software installer/updater could get that for you. XFCE is reasonably small. I just looked and it would be about 34 megs for what looks like the basic desktop with everything needed to work. Good luck. -- David -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
