On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 9:28 AM, Scott Robbins <scottro11 at 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. -- ---~~.~~--- Mike // SilverTip257 //