learning fedora

[Lonnie Cumberland]

Thanks Aly,

I will dig into it to see what I can discover.

Looks to be an exciting distro.

Cheers,
Lonnie :)

Aly Dharshi wrote:

> Lonnie,
>
>     Start with taking the Fedora distro and installing it from disks 
> via the GUI and that will allow you to discover the install system, 
> Fedora's installer is Anaconda 
> (http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/anaconda-installer/) so you can 
> check out that too.
>     
>     If you start with installing the distro via anaconda from the 
> disks that would be a good start to see how it works (install-wise)
>
>     Cheers,
>
>     Aly.
>
> Lonnie Cumberland wrote:
>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I have been an avid Linux user for a long time now, but must say that 
>> I have been using Mandrake most of that time. That was because I 
>> thought that it was a little more cutting-edge than Red Hat. Now it 
>> seems that the price of that cutting edge was that things do not 
>> always work as good as you would like.
>>
>> Anyway, I am very eager to try Fedora and see if it is more stable 
>> and compatible with various other applications.
>>
>> I would like to know if someone could either tell me some of the 
>> specifics, or direct me to some documentation on the Fedora 
>> installer.  I want to learn how things are done.
>>
>> For example I would like to know where in the Stage2.img is the list 
>> of install types and install messages that you see when it is running.
>>
>> I would like to see what file Fedora uses to define what the 
>> "minimal" install is, or "Server" install list of packages because I 
>> need the absolute smallest install + XWindows and the smallest 
>> (simplest) window manager.
>>
>> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated,
>> Thanks,
>> Lonnie
>>
>>
>>
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