On 4/22/2009 4:19 PM, suvayu ali wrote: > 2009/4/22 David <dgboles@xxxxxxxxxxx>: >> On 4/22/2009 3:33 PM, suvayu ali wrote: >>> 2009/4/22 David <dgboles@xxxxxxxxxxx>: >>>> On 4/22/2009 2:13 PM, suvayu ali wrote: >>>>> 2009/4/22 David <dgboles@xxxxxxxxxxx>: >>>>>> 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. >>> Thanks for the thought, but I'm aware of the XFCE Live CDs. My >>> question is since live CDs don't offer the option to choose the kind >>> of install, not even the option to choose the partition on the disk, >>> upgrading to a clean XFCE desktop is not possible without loosing my >>> current partitioning scheme. Is my understanding correct here? >> With a Lived-CD. Yes. I said before that a Live-CD does not really install >> in the common way thought of. It wipes the drive and writes itself to the >> harddrive. Exactly as it is when it was made. Somewhat like burning an ISO >> to a CD/DVD. What it is is what you get. >> A update would take either the 3.4 G DVD or the set of 6 CDs. > This is what I mentioned in my first post, the DVD _does_ not_ include > the packages for XFCE. So the Live CD is the only way to get XFCE. If > DVD re-spins (meaning, not Live media) were available with XFCE on > them then that would make my day. :) Hmm... I guess I have gotten confused between at least two, perhaps more, conversations in this thread. You are correct, I just looked, that XFCE is not included in the Live-CD nor is can I find it in the full DVD. XFCE would have to be downloaded. > BTW cheapbytes seems to be pretty cool. I'll look into that. I had phone-line dialup for a long time sometime ago. 56k modems really only do 33.6k so downloads of several CDs was 24/7 week long event. :-) I bought from Cheapbytes on a recommendation of a friend and I have never had a problem. One time I had a bad CD disk, number three, in the middle of a set five. I emailed them asking for a new number 3 disk. They apologized. I recieved a whole new set of five, no charge, in three days. -- 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
