On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 16:49:54 +0000 (UTC) Beartooth <beartooth@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I've been playing with Scientific Linux on an oldish machine, > and now I want to try F16 with xfce -- *not* live, but installed, > with the .iso on a DVD. I realize that requires me to install the > gnome version and then add xfce. Do I just command "yum install > xfce," or is there something more esoteric? yum groupinstall xfce-desktop You don't need to install gnome. Just deselect it when you do the install. > In the course of playing with SL, I've put spare copies of > various data into it, and of course tweaked all sorts of things, many > of them a tad bit tedious; I'd like to preserve them into the F16 > install. You can save off your homedir and keep all those settings easily. Other things you will likely have to re-tweak. > Is there a way Fedora can treat SL6 as if I were upgrading > earlier Fedora install? I see this : Nope. Not that I know of. They are different OSes. > There's plenty of space for dual-booting. I suppose I could > install into free space, boot to it, mount the SL partition, and copy > stuff. But that sounds like needless hassle to me, even if I got all > of it right. > > Is there another way?? Nope. kevin
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