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. :) BTW cheapbytes seems to be pretty cool. I'll look into that. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
