Going from a KDE Live CD to full install?

[thesun]

Hi, I managed to install to the hard disk via a KDE Live CD, but I'm wondering what the best way to go from that to a full install (Gnome, other apps, etc.) is. Should I try a network install? My problem seems to be that for some reason the installer on the regular DVD iso doesn't recognize my hard disk. But with the Live CD, everything went smoothly. I like both Gnome and KDE and don't want to have the lower functionality...any ideas or suggestions?

Thanks...

[FriedChips]

just "yum install" anything you want, or click "Add or Remove Programs" in the applications menu. Everything that's on the DVD is also in the repos.

[leigh123linux]

For Gnome try

su
yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment"

[Emphyrio]

As far as Fedora is concerned, it is a full install. If you want to add Gnome or XFCE (or any other software) just use "Add/Remove Software" from the KDE menu.

From the login screen you can choose what type of session to use.

[thesun]

Originally Posted by FriedChips

just "yum install" anything you want, or click "Add or Remove Programs" in the applications menu. Everything that's on the DVD is also in the repos.

Yes, I know it's all there...but the question is how to _get_ it all. Do I type "yum install everything and the kitchen sink"? :-) The "yum install 'GNOME desktop environment'" is useful -- but there's got to be tons of other stuff on there that's not specific to Gnome, right? Firefox, for example, is now locally installed and I have to type "cd /home/mydirectory/firefox/" and "./firefox &" to run it. A bunch of the things I liked in KDE (like the Japanese dictionary Kiten) aren't showing up. It'd be great to have an easy way to just type something like "yum install fedora8" and have yum installer make it so. If not, if it's a hunt and peck, I can work with that, but it's kind of disappointing not to just have Anaconda do the work for me.

[jrummy27]

First, I highly doubt you want EVERYTHING. Thats a lot of stuff and your system will be bloated. If you really do want all that, then pop in the dvd, open a terminal, change to the directory its mounted under (/media/something/Packages), and yum localinstall ./*.rpm.

The better option would be to, as mentioned, open up the Add/Remove software and check the boxes for things you'll actually need. This list looks just like the one in anaconda (but with more packages) so anything you could do with the installer you can do here.

As far as firefox, it sounds like you downloaded the tar ball off firefox's website and are running from that. You could either symlink /home/myuser/firefox/firefox to /usr/bin or something like that or just install the fedora version using "yum install firefox" or Add/Remove software.

[Seve]

Hello:
There used to be an install everything option, however, the last time that was available was FC4 (if my memory has not failed me)
Try
Install yumex
yum -y install yumex

then you can easily search through for the applications and libraries that you want to install.
Also, check out
yum grouplist
then
yum groupinfo "Group Name"
for information on the packages that will be installed.

Seve

[ryptyde]

I have made two livecd installs and then used the Fedora 8 DVD as a repo to add more packages. I copied the
"Fedora-install-media.repo" file from the DVD and placed it in the "yum.repos.d" directory" then using "Add/Remove Software" the DVD can be selected to draw from. You can also disable the default repos too.

[thesun]

Okay, I just went through the Add/Remove software method and it worked fine...It was easy, just like folks said. :-)