Quick question

[Fallenshadows]

Been digging forever figured I'd just out right ask at this point.
I downloaded the Live cd and it's great so I decided to up the download and do the 4 gig DVD. Did all that wonderful work got to package 1057 of 1097 and it was corrupted even though I did the checksum.....obviously not happy as I have had to start back over. Just to make my life easier. Now that I am back to the live cd install. Can I just straight upgrade from the terminal in some easy fashion to get all the benefits of the 4gigs of greatness?

[SteveGYBE]

As the Live CD is just Fedora with a lot of the applications removed to make to fit on a CD, once you have installed the Live CD to your hard disk, you can just install the additional applications as you require them. The easiest tool which will let you see what is available is "Yumex". As root, runyum install yumexAfter installing, you will find it on the "Applications / System Tools" menu. Yumex gives a graphical view of the Fedora software repositories with the packages in convenient groups. You can then pick and choose what applications you want to install, or select a group to get the default applications for that group.

[Fallenshadows]

Steve awesome soon as I get home from work I will give it a whirl. Are there any programs, add-ons, or plugins that I will still need to go hunt down?

[scottro]

One thing to keep in mind with the live CD--you'll need to have space where it can make a relatively small (~200 MB) /boot partition and an ext4 partition. (You can see the sticky for further explanation.)
It requires two partitions at present--if you have an extended partition to use, you should be fine.

[SteveGYBE]

The main one I would go for is OpenOffice.org - in Yumex, expand the "Apps" group and check "Office/Productivity" - this will give you the Word Processor, Spreadsheet and Presentation software as well as the Evince document viewer which can view PDF files.

After that, it's up to you - you will probably want to check out Personal Fedora 11 Installation Guide (http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f11.htm) for how to get some proprietry file types supported, like MP3.

[Fallenshadows]

One thing to keep in mind with the live CD--you'll need to have space where it can make a relatively small (~200 MB) /boot partition and an ext4 partition. (You can see the sticky for further explanation.)
It requires two partitions at present--if you have an extended partition to use, you should be fine.

I will look at that now. Is it an issue or just a people ***** about missing 200mb? Because I haven't run into an issue of an extra partition....or will I later?

[Fallenshadows]

Read the sticky. I am most certainly new to fedora. (I keep fumbling back and forth between linux and windows) I read up on fedora 11 and was really into it so I ran with it.
Anyways after reading the sticky...I am confused. I booted from the cd. It loaded the virtual OS and I installed from the desktop. When prompted for partition I chose entire drive. I installed and have no issues (aside from the broadcom b.s. still trying to sort out the wireless)
ext3 versus ext4? What issues am I going to run into loading the way I did? To me reading the sticky I shouldn't have gotten as far as I did?

[CSchwangler]

Why do you think you shouldn't have gotten as far as you did? I guess you went with the default partitioning, which then would be 200MB /boot and the rest LVM (2 partitions / and /swap where / would be formatted as ext4). This usually is a good enough setup for a home computer. The only "issue" you might run into is that you don't have a separate /home partition, which make version updates a little bit more difficult.