2009/4/22 psmith <psmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > suvayu ali wrote: >> >> 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? >> > > no this is not correct, when you choose install to disk from the livecd > desktop it starts anaconda and you can set the keyboard and language > settings as well as set up custom partitions, or tell it to use existing > partitions no problem, the only thing i found that was i had persistence set > on my live usb and when i did finaly get round to installing to the hard > drive none of the stuff that i had changed since first running the live usb > (eg the stuff on the persistent part of it) didn't get transferred across, > now this was with the f11 beta xfce snapshot so i'm not sure if it's just a > problem with that spin, or if it happens with all live spins. > > phil Thank you Phil for correcting my misconceptions. This is great news for me. Now I can move to a completely Gnome free XFCE desktop for F11. :) -- 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
