fc5

Josh Coffman josh_coffman at yahoo.com
Thu Mar 9 13:59:02 MST 2006



--- Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 12:37 -0700, Craig White
> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 11:19 -0800, Josh Coffman
> wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > >    I'm planning on an immediate fresh install of
> fc5
> > > when it comes out. Any suggestions?
> > > 
> > >    What I'd like to do is partition a little
> smarter
> > > and minimize the software I install.
> > > 
> > >    Currently, I'm down to a laptop for home. (hp
> > > zv5440) It's got a 60gig hd. 20gig for winxp;
> have to
> > > keep that =(. 20gig for fedora. 20gig (15-ish
> actual)
> > > for vfat to share files with windows boot.
> > > 
> > >    I don't want to bother the windows boot cause
> its a
> > > real pain to put back together. otherwise, I can
> > > change the other partitions however.
> > > 
> > >    Also, anyone know if I can tell anaconda to
> only
> > > install KDE, and not gnome?
> > ----
> > previous versions of Fedora you could - don't know
> about FC-5 because I
> > don't do the testing versions.
> > 
> > no other suggestions...I think you kind of know
> what to do. I have
> > noticed your extreme anticipation of the impending
> release.
> > 

Yeah, I put a lot of bloat into my current FC4, want
to change some things. Hoping it fixes a couple other
things. Although I could refresh with fc4, I figured I
could wait for fc5 but I am anxious to clean up the
system.

> > You might want to get bittorrent installed now -
> When FC-4 came out, I
> > got the 5 cd set downloaded in about 45 minutes
> via bittorrent (Cox
> > Internet).
> ----
> btw - you'll know about a day ahead of it's release
> when they create the
> folder structures for '5' here...
> 
>
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/
> 
> (they aren't there yet)
> 
> Craig
> 

I've already got bittorrent on it.


-j




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