Re: Q about installing F10 from Live DVD

2009-04-23 Thread psmith
suvayu ali wrote: 2009/4/22 psmith psm...@fedoraproject.org: 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,

Re: Q about installing F10 from Live DVD

2009-04-23 Thread psmith
jackson byers wrote: ect: Re: Q about installing F10 from Live DVD jackson byers wrote: Well, the f10liveinstall cd didnt work for me, ( see f10 liveinstall cd trashed my main fc5) Well, FC5 is long out of support, that's what you get for waiting so long until you finally upgrade. (Hint

Re: Q about installing F10 from Live DVD

2009-04-23 Thread jackson byers
it curious however that David also thought there was no obvious custom leading me to think there could be differences on various versions of the liveinstallcd. Another question: this thread Q about installing F10 from Live DVD implies it is a DVD not a CD. Do both versions exist? I have a CD not a DVD

Re: Q about installing F10 from Live DVD

2009-04-23 Thread David
On 4/23/2009 1:22 PM, jackson byers wrote: David's experience also was that there was no custom option. I purchased my cd from OSDisc.com Fedora 10 KDE Edition - install/Live CD is this some outdated version? or a deficient version? not officially supported?

Re: Q about installing F10 from Live DVD

2009-04-23 Thread psmith
to botch it. I still find it curious however that David also thought there was no obvious custom leading me to think there could be� differences on various versions of the liveinstallcd. Another question: this thread Q about installing F10 from Live DVD implies� it is a� DVD not a CD. Do both

Re: Q about installing F10 from Live DVD

2009-04-22 Thread David
On 4/21/2009 5:10 PM, jackson byers wrote: if it insists on that, I wasnt prepared for it, having only sdb6 i was willing to give to f10. I wrote about this the other day but I don't recall ever seeing it show up. First: A Live-CD *does not* install separate packages. A Live-CD writes

Re: Q about installing F10 from Live DVD

2009-04-22 Thread suvayu ali
2009/4/22 David dgbo...@comcast.net: On 4/21/2009 5:10 PM, jackson byers wrote: if it insists on that, I wasnt prepared for it, having only sdb6 i was willing to give to f10. I wrote about this the other day but I don't recall ever seeing it show up. First: A Live-CD *does not* install

Re: Q about installing F10 from Live DVD

2009-04-22 Thread suvayu ali
2009/4/22 David dgbo...@comcast.net: On 4/22/2009 2:13 PM, suvayu ali wrote: 2009/4/22 David dgbo...@comcast.net: 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

Re: Q about installing F10 from Live DVD

2009-04-22 Thread David
On 4/22/2009 3:33 PM, suvayu ali wrote: 2009/4/22 David dgbo...@comcast.net: On 4/22/2009 2:13 PM, suvayu ali wrote: 2009/4/22 David dgbo...@comcast.net: 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

Re: Q about installing F10 from Live DVD

2009-04-22 Thread suvayu ali
2009/4/22 David dgbo...@comcast.net: On 4/22/2009 3:33 PM, suvayu ali wrote: 2009/4/22 David dgbo...@comcast.net: On 4/22/2009 2:13 PM, suvayu ali wrote: 2009/4/22 David dgbo...@comcast.net: As I understand the Live-CD installs to the primary (boot) disk. That would be sda. It will have a

Re: Q about installing F10 from Live DVD

2009-04-22 Thread psmith
suvayu ali wrote: 2009/4/22 David dgbo...@comcast.net: On 4/22/2009 2:13 PM, suvayu ali wrote: 2009/4/22 David dgbo...@comcast.net: 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.

Re: Q about installing F10 from Live DVD

2009-04-22 Thread psmith
David wrote: On 4/22/2009 3:33 PM, suvayu ali wrote: 2009/4/22 David dgbo...@comcast.net: On 4/22/2009 2:13 PM, suvayu ali wrote: 2009/4/22 David dgbo...@comcast.net: As I understand the Live-CD installs to the primary (boot) disk. That would be sda. It will have a /

Re: Q about installing F10 from Live DVD

2009-04-22 Thread suvayu ali
2009/4/22 psmith psm...@fedoraproject.org: 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

Re: Q about installing F10 from Live DVD

2009-04-22 Thread David
On 4/22/2009 5:35 PM, psmith wrote: you are wrong in your suppositions of the live install procedure as it does not wipe the disc and install itself on the full hard drive, well not unless you tell it too ;) Then something has changed since i fooled around with it. Granted which has been a

Re: Q about installing F10 from Live DVD

2009-04-22 Thread David
On 4/22/2009 4:19 PM, suvayu ali wrote: 2009/4/22 David dgbo...@comcast.net: On 4/22/2009 3:33 PM, suvayu ali wrote: 2009/4/22 David dgbo...@comcast.net: On 4/22/2009 2:13 PM, suvayu ali wrote: 2009/4/22 David dgbo...@comcast.net: As I understand the Live-CD installs to the primary (boot)

Re: Q about installing F10 from Live DVD

2009-04-22 Thread Kevin Kofler
jackson byers wrote: Well, the f10liveinstall cd didnt work for me, ( see f10 liveinstall cd trashed my main fc5) Well, FC5 is long out of support, that's what you get for waiting so long until you finally upgrade. (Hint: you're supposed to upgrade at each or every other release, not wait 5

Re: Q about installing F10 from Live DVD

2009-04-22 Thread Kevin Kofler
suvayu ali wrote: 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

Re: Q about installing F10 from Live DVD

2009-04-22 Thread Kevin Kofler
David wrote: Then something has changed since i fooled around with it. Granted which has been a while. What I had wiped out what would be C:\ drive of a two drive system and at no time did it *visibly* offer to do anything else. And I recall seeing a lot of 'Oh heck!!' your disk ate my

Re: Q about installing F10 from Live DVD

2009-04-22 Thread Kevin Kofler
David wrote: 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. You can do custom partitioning also with the live CDs (with some restrictions, e.g. / needs to be ext3 for Fedora = 10 and ext4 for

Re: Q about installing F10 from Live DVD

2009-04-22 Thread jackson byers
ect: Re: Q about installing F10 from Live DVD jackson byers wrote: Well, the f10liveinstall cd didnt work for me, ( see f10 liveinstall cd trashed my main fc5) Well, FC5 is long out of support, that's what you get for waiting so long until you finally upgrade. (Hint: you're supposed to upgrade

Re: Q about installing F10 from Live DVD

2009-04-22 Thread David
On 4/22/2009 7:23 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: David wrote: Then something has changed since i fooled around with it. Granted which has been a while. What I had wiped out what would be C:\ drive of a two drive system and at no time did it *visibly* offer to do anything else. And I recall seeing a

Re: Q about installing F10 from Live DVD

2009-04-22 Thread David
On 4/22/2009 7:20 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: David wrote: 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. You can do custom partitioning also with the live CDs (with some restrictions, e.g. / needs

Re: Q about installing F10 from Live DVD

2009-04-21 Thread jackson byers
Re: Q about installing F10 from Live DVD Kenneth Lee wrote: Use the Live CD to try out distributions. Download and burn the DVD, and use that for installations. This seems to be true with Fedora. Each distribution seems to work a little bit different, but the live CD's seem to be good

Re: Q about installing F10 from Live DVD

2009-04-21 Thread David
On 4/21/2009 1:41 PM, jackson byers wrote: Re: Q about installing F10 from Live DVD Kenneth Lee wrote: Use the Live CD to try out distributions. Download and burn the DVD, and use that for installations. This seems to be true with Fedora. Each distribution seems to work a little bit

Re: Q about installing F10 from Live DVD

2009-04-21 Thread Erick Martínez
Hello! can anybody bring me some help, pls? No problem with Gnome (sound is ok), but I'm trying to test Fedora 10 XFCE. The problem is that I can't make the sound work. My Thinkpad is mute!!! Pulseaudio is active in the autostarted scripts/applications section. When I open the Volume control,

Re: Q about installing F10 from Live DVD

2009-04-21 Thread jackson byers
David replied if it insists on that, I wasnt prepared for it, having only sdb6 i was willing to give to f10. I wrote about this the other day but I don't recall ever seeing it show up. First: A Live-CD *does not* install separate packages. A Live-CD writes itself to your hard similar to

Re: Q about installing F10 from Live DVD

2009-04-21 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 13:36 -0700, Erick Martínez wrote: Hello! can anybody bring me some help, pls? No problem with Gnome (sound is ok), but I'm trying to test Fedora 10 XFCE. The problem is that I can't make the sound work. My Thinkpad is mute!!! Pulseaudio is active in the autostarted

Re: Q about installing F10 from Live DVD

2009-04-20 Thread Kevin Kofler
Kenneth Lee wrote: Use the Live CD to try out distributions. Download and burn the DVD, and use that for installations. This seems to be true with Fedora. Each distribution seems to work a little bit different, but the live CD's seem to be good for trying them out without changing what

Re: Q about installing F10 from Live DVD

2009-04-19 Thread Kenneth Lee
Use the Live CD to try out distributions. Download and burn the DVD, and use that for installations. This seems to be true with Fedora. Each distribution seems to work a little bit different, but the live CD's seem to be good for trying them out without changing what is on your current hard

Re: Q about installing F10 from Live DVD

2009-04-15 Thread Kevin Kofler
Kam Leo wrote: Open Office 3 is included. That depends on the spin. The installer DVD includes it, the default live CDs don't (the GNOME one ships with Abiword, the KDE one with KOffice 1) because there's no room for it. Some live DVDs include it, e.g. the Fedora Electronic Lab (FEL) DVD, and

Re: Q about installing F10 from Live DVD

2009-04-15 Thread Kevin Kofler
suvayu ali wrote: There is one downside though, you don't get to choose the packages in the live CD that gets installed. So if you want to exclude any of the packages, you have to remove it once everything is installed. (not sure about this part, so correct me if I am wrong) This is correct,

Re: Q about installing F10 from Live DVD

2009-04-15 Thread Kevin Kofler
Dean S. Messing wrote: I presume that the machine will just come up, running in-memory from the Live Image on the DVD. (Is that right?) So, how does one get the in-memory system onto a root partition? Does the Anaconda Installer get involved in the process so that a regular install occurs

Q about installing F10 from Live DVD

2009-04-14 Thread Dean S. Messing
A colleague of mine is interested in trying Linux Fedora 10 on a new machine he's purchased. He asked me to help him. I thought I'd try the Live install of which I've read, but have never done before. It seems like a fast way to install and time-to-install is a bit limited. I looked at the

Re: Q about installing F10 from Live DVD

2009-04-14 Thread Kam Leo
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Dean S. Messing de...@sharplabs.com wrote: A colleague of mine is interested in trying Linux Fedora 10 on a new machine he's purchased. He asked me to help him.  I thought I'd try the Live install of which I've read, but have never done before.  It seems like

Re: Q about installing F10 from Live DVD

2009-04-14 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 12:44 -0800, Kam Leo wrote: On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Dean S. Messing de...@sharplabs.com wrote: A colleague of mine is interested in trying Linux Fedora 10 on a new machine he's purchased. He asked me to help him. I thought I'd try the Live install of which

Re: Q about installing F10 from Live DVD

2009-04-14 Thread Dean S. Messing
Kam Leo wrote: On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Dean S. Messing de...@sharplabs.com wrote: A colleague of mine is interested in trying Linux Fedora 10 on a new machine he's purchased. He asked me to help him.  I thought I'd try the Live install of which I've read, but have never done

Re: Q about installing F10 from Live DVD

2009-04-14 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 13:55 -0700, Dean S. Messing wrote: Kam Leo wrote: On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Dean S. Messing de...@sharplabs.com wrote: A colleague of mine is interested in trying Linux Fedora 10 on a new machine he's purchased. He asked me to help him. I thought I'd

Re: Q about installing F10 from Live DVD

2009-04-14 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 13:55 -0700, Dean S. Messing wrote: So I take it the install from the live-cd is just an ordinary Anaconda-based install? More or less... If so, what's the advantage over just using the F10 install DVD (February respin, of course)? Smaller disc to download, in the

Re: Q about installing F10 from Live DVD

2009-04-14 Thread suvayu ali
2009/4/14 Dean S. Messing de...@sharplabs.com: If you have the live-dvd you would have discovered the answer for yourself: A menu option is presented to either run the live-cd or perform an install. Thanks Kam.  I don't yet have it (which is why I didn't know).  So I take it the install

Re: Q about installing F10 from Live DVD

2009-04-14 Thread Kam Leo
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 13:55 -0700, Dean S. Messing wrote: Kam Leo wrote: On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Dean S. Messing de...@sharplabs.com wrote: A colleague of mine is interested in trying Linux

Re: Q about installing F10 from Live DVD

2009-04-14 Thread Timothy Murphy
Dean S. Messing wrote: Thanks Kam. I don't yet have it (which is why I didn't know). So I take it the install from the live-cd is just an ordinary Anaconda-based install? If so, what's the advantage over just using the F10 install DVD (February respin, of course)? I guess you see the

Re: Q about installing F10 from Live DVD

2009-04-14 Thread Kam Leo
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote: Dean S. Messing wrote: Thanks Kam.  I don't yet have it (which is why I didn't know).  So I take it the install from the live-cd is just an ordinary Anaconda-based install?  If so, what's the advantage over just using

Re: Q about installing F10 from Live DVD

2009-04-14 Thread Dean S. Messing
Thanks to all (to many to name individually) for the helpful answers! My colleague may be a new member soon. Dean -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: