On Sun, 29 Oct 2017 15:56:35 -0400 Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Is ext4 still used for the partitions or is something newer and > better used? I am going to have to take a look to see what to do. I > am installing on a 500GB SSD drive. There was a discussion here some time ago about the best settings to use to prolong the life, and keep it fast. I don't use an SSD drive, so I'm not a good resource for that. The web will probably turn up lots of advocacy. There is JFS, XFS, Btrfs as alternatives to ext4. I don't think Btrfs can be used as /boot yet. I've seen advocacy for each of JFS and XFS and Btrfs. You will have to search that, and decide which arguments sway you. There's also the Solaris filesystem, ZFS, which is purported to be the best thing since sliced bread, but it has some issues on linux because of licensing. There was a discussion about this on the list some time ago also. > That was my experience with F24. The netinstall got me Xfce. Well > not really. It got me Cinnamon. There was a bug in the Xfce install > back then. I had to add Xfce and select it on log in. > > But I don't remember if I used a supposedly Xfce netinstall or the > base install allowed me to try and select Xfce. If the install method you use connects to the repositories, then you will be able to select additional packages, or groups, to install. I usually just use the bare minimum net install, then install anything I want from the repositories after I boot to the new system. There used to be a technique called BFO that would let me do an install without any media, strictly from the net, but it seems to have fallen into disrepair. At least, when I tried to install rawhide, it just returned me to the menu. Too bad, it was really great to just put it in grub.cfg, boot into it, and do a new install. Maybe the released versions of Fedora still work with BFO, I haven't tried those. It might be faster for you to clone your existing Fedora system to the SSD, and then use the dnf system upgrade to get to F26. Then everything just happens over the net, except for the local disk transfers. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
