Is there a full DVD?

[Beartooth]

I have the .iso for the Live CD of F16xfce, and I can install 
from that; but I'd rather have a DVD with the whole shebang, if I could 
find it.

I did not manage to find it from the get Fedora page, nor the 
xfce 
page. Does it exist?

I want to convert a machine currently running CentOS 6.2, and I 
don't know of a way to make it do a preupgrade and turn into Fedora.

[Christoph Wickert]

Am Sonntag, den 15.01.2012, 20:11 +0000 schrieb Beartooth:
> I have the .iso for the Live CD of F16xfce, and I can install 
> from that; but I'd rather have a DVD with the whole shebang, if I could 
> find it.
>
> I did not manage to find it from the get Fedora page, nor the 
> xfce 
> page. Does it exist?

Yes. Go to http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora -> "View more Fedora
options..." -> "Fedora 16 DVD"

Regards,
Christoph

[Beartooth]

On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:59:14 -0500, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora

OK, my bad. I meant specifically the full xfce spin. I'm one of 
the refugees from Gnome 3. Sorry about that.

[Christoph Wickert]

Am Sonntag, den 15.01.2012, 21:46 +0000 schrieb Beartooth:
> On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:59:14 -0500, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> > http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora
>
> OK, my bad. I meant specifically the full xfce spin. I'm one of 
> the refugees from Gnome 3. Sorry about that.

What is a full Xfce Spin? Spins are installable live-media with a
predefined package selection. So you either take the spin or you take
the DVD and select the appliations you want. Unfortunately the current
spins don't allow this as the installer just copies an image of the
media to the harddrive.

Regards,
Christoph

[Beartooth]

On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:36:19 -0500, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 15.01.2012, 21:46 +0000 schrieb Beartooth:
> > OK, my bad. I meant specifically the full xfce spin. I'm one of
> > the refugees from Gnome 3. Sorry about that.
> What is a full Xfce Spin? Spins are installable live-media with a
> predefined package selection. So you either take the spin or you take
> the DVD and select the applications you want. Unfortunately the current
> spins don't allow this as the installer just copies an image of the
> media to the hard drive.

Oho! I've been running Omega Linux almost since it began; but I 
had no idea that all spins were live. Many thanks!

[Frank Murphy]

On 15/01/12 20:11, Beartooth wrote:
> I want to convert a machine currently running CentOS 6.2, and I
> don't know of a way to make it do a preupgrade and turn into Fedora.

Your safest option is to backup, and install clean from Xfce LiveCD.
If that's not possible, there is an awkward, sidegrade using 
"upgradeany" from CentOS to Fedora, using the full Fedora DVD.
(Google for specifics)

You will then have a full Fedora Gnome install,
as Gnome is the default on CentOS.
Then yum install  @xfce-desktop.
Then slowly and safely remove apps not required.

Go for the safest option, do a clean install.

[Beartooth]

On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:03:56 +0000, Frank Murphy wrote:
> Your safest option is to backup, and install clean from Xfce LiveCD.
> If that's not possible, there is an awkward, sidegrade using
> "upgradeany" from CentOS to Fedora, using the full Fedora DVD. (Google
> for specifics)
> You will then have a full Fedora Gnome install,
> as Gnome is the default on CentOS.
> Then yum install  @xfce-desktop.
> Then slowly and safely remove apps not required.
> Go for the safest option, do a clean install.

Now that you spell it out, it does sound like the old advice : 
"Keep your eye on the ball, your nose to the grindstone, and your ear to 
the ground -- and try to work in that position." I'll do as you say. 
Thanks!