On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Richard, > > I can answer only one of your concerns. > > On Friday 18 December 2009 01:34 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: >> >> 3. After giving up on the graphical installer I went text based which >> had it's own set of challenges. Primarilly it would not let me setup a >> custom partition layout, and secondly it didn't seem to install X as >> after rebooting I was dumped to a VT. >> > > The text based installer _intentionally_ does not have support for custom > partitioning since F12. Its in the Release notes. Well that's a pain... I guess I'll have to search for/submit a bug for my buttons not being visible in anaconda. > And addressing your second query, when you install in text mode, the default > runlevel is set to runlevel 3. All you have to do is change that in > /etc/inittab or /boot/grub/grub.conf This doesn't seem to be my experience. After booting it looks to be a very minimal install. No Xorg, Network Manager, or even the "man" command as I found out trying to get "ifconfig eth0 up" to work to no avail (it did have a good network connection but refuses to get an IP address from my router). It did have "info" installed but no help files for any of the commands I tried. I'm downloading the LXDE spin now so I guess I'll live with EXT4 on my SSD and hope it doesn't shorten the life too much. Richard -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
