Q about installing F10 from Live DVD

[psmith]

suvayu ali wrote:
> 2009/4/22 psmith <psmith at fedoraproject.org>:
>   
>> suvayu ali wrote:
>>     
>>> Thanks for the thought, but I'm aware of the XFCE Live CDs. My
>>> question is since live CDs don't offer the option to choose the kind
>>> of install, not even the option to choose the partition on the disk,
>>> upgrading to a clean XFCE desktop is not possible without loosing my
>>> current partitioning scheme. Is my understanding correct here?
>>>
>>>       
>> no this is not correct, when you choose install to disk from the livecd
>> desktop it starts anaconda and you can set the keyboard and language
>> settings as well as set up custom partitions, or tell it to use existing
>> partitions no problem, the only thing i found that was i had persistence set
>> on my live usb and when i did finaly get round to installing to the hard
>> drive none of the stuff that i had changed since first running the live usb
>> (eg the stuff on the persistent part of it) didn't get transferred across,
>> now this was with the f11 beta xfce snapshot so i'm not sure if it's just a
>> problem with that spin, or if it happens with all live spins.
>>
>> phil
>>     
>
> Thank you Phil for correcting my misconceptions. This is great news
> for me. Now I can move to a completely Gnome free XFCE desktop for
> F11. :)
>
>   
don't be too sure about that, there are still some gnome dependencies on 
a fedora xfce install ;)

phil