On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 9:28 AM, Scott Robbins scottro11@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 09:00:44AM -0500, mechy2k2000 wrote:
I think nearly all the fedora images are live CDs now. They should have
an
option to install fedora when you boot the cd. Usually when you boot the cd. A window appears asking to either install the os or try it out. If
you
are using a non gnome cd,you may have to search the application menu for the installer
At one point, at least the LiveCD had a bunch of limitations, possibly on partitioning, and also on package selection. I don't know if that's still true.
Still true. Anaconda doesn't handle LVM on Software RAID properly. Maybe it will be fixed when F24 releases this summer. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1225184
There may be other limitations as well.
The work around is to use the netinstall image. The server images are a different set of packages apparently and is said to require a bunch of work to make a server install a workstation install in the end. So I'd advise against that and instead netinstall (worked for me).
However, there are also the server and workstation spins. If you are looking for the usual Gnome desktop, you probably want workstation. I usue server, choose minimal install and add things afterwards.
The Fedora site itself has the live one by default. Their logic is that the newcomer will have the best chance of success with that one, and the more experienced will go elsewhere. Their site, https://getfedora.org/, shows server and workstation images for download.