On Fri, 2014-12-12 at 08:27 -1000, Jim Lewis wrote: > Hello all, > > I am a bit embarrassed asking this, as it must be something simple I > overlooked. I have had no trouble installing the previous 20 versions of > Fedora, but 21 has me stumped. I am using the Fedora 21 server DVD > image, want the Mate base environment, and want to pick several add-ons. > In general I want the screen shown in section 5.4.7 of the Installation > Guide. When I attempt this the only base option is Fedora Server, and > there aren't nearly enough add-ons to pick from. > > Thanks in advance for any help on this. I would really like to start > using 21. > > Jim Lewis > RHCSA > Senior Software Engineer (retired) > > I too was confused! I want things like xfce, gedit, pcmanfm, evolution, kmail, kdm, ... I don't want Gnome I tried Fedora-Server-DVD-x86_64-21.iso which was a total failure not even X would work without installing extra bits eg yum install xorg-x11-drv-* ja@paxos F21 2$ ltr -h total 5.0G -rw-r--r--. 1 ja sysadmin 1.4G Dec 3 21:37 Fedora-Live-Workstation-x86_64-21-5.iso -rw-r--r--. 1 ja sysadmin 424M Dec 4 00:45 Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-21.iso -rw-r--r--. 1 ja sysadmin 2.0G Dec 4 00:46 Fedora-Server-DVD-x86_64-21.iso -rw-r-----. 1 ja sysadmin 424M Dec 10 14:04 boot.iso -rw-r-----. 1 ja sysadmin 400K Dec 11 16:33 bfo.usb -rw-r-----. 1 ja sysadmin 892M Dec 11 17:18 Fedora-Live-Xfce-x86_64-21-5.iso -rw-r--r--. 1 ja sysadmin 1.5K Dec 11 18:34 README I found using Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-21.iso the best option Lots of choices available It took about 30 minutes to download my choices (XFCE) with a 2Mbyte/s ADSL line Very inconvenient compared with NFS mounting a "complete" DVD and installing from there Then there are the other machines to install ... dump 0f - /dev/sdb7 | restore -rf - approach works Ok - very fast 20sec ish but its easy to have finger trouble sorting things out after the restore! John -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
