On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 16:49:54 +0000 (UTC)
Beartooth <beartooth(a)comcast.net> wrote:
I've been playing with Scientific Linux on an oldish machine,
and now I want to try F16 with xfce -- *not* live, but installed,
with the .iso on a DVD. I realize that requires me to install the
gnome version and then add xfce. Do I just command "yum install
xfce," or is there something more esoteric?
yum groupinstall xfce-desktop
You don't need to install gnome. Just deselect it when you do the
install.
In the course of playing with SL, I've put spare copies of
various data into it, and of course tweaked all sorts of things, many
of them a tad bit tedious; I'd like to preserve them into the F16
install.
You can save off your homedir and keep all those settings easily.
Other things you will likely have to re-tweak.
Is there a way Fedora can treat SL6 as if I were upgrading
earlier Fedora install? I see this :
Nope. Not that I know of. They are different OSes.
There's plenty of space for dual-booting. I suppose I could
install into free space, boot to it, mount the SL partition, and copy
stuff. But that sounds like needless hassle to me, even if I got all
of it right.
Is there another way??
Nope.
kevin