Q about installing F10 from Live DVD

[psmith]

jackson byers wrote:
> ect: Re: Q about installing F10 from Live DVD
> jackson byers wrote:
> > Well, the f10liveinstall cd didnt work for me,
> > ( see f10 liveinstall cd trashed my main fc5)
>
> Well, FC5 is long out of support, that's what you get for waiting so long
> until you finally upgrade. (Hint: you're supposed to upgrade at each or
> every other release, not wait 5 releases and then install in parallel,
> still keeping the totally outdated version.)
>
> ������ Kevin Kofler
> ---------
> jbyers;
> I am fully aware that I was/am way out of date, and fully nonsupported 
> in fc5.
> I _was_� trying to install the current f10�
> (which i think you would encourage)
> but wanted to retain fc5 until i successfully installed f10,
> surely a safe practice.
>
> Instead I� got my main fc5 clobbered by
> some combination of
> --my own inexperience
> --a live/install cd that did not have a "custom" option.
> � or i� couldnt see it.
>
> David's experience also was that there was no custom option.
>
> I purchased my cd from OSDisc.com
> Fedora 10 KDE Edition - install/Live CD
>
> is this some outdated version?
> or a deficient version?
> not officially supported?
> How is one to know?
>
> Jack 
you simply clicked next on the partitioning screen with the drop down 
box that said "replace my existing linux install" instead of clicking 
said drop down box and choosing custom. user error all the way. afaik 
the live cd's have had custom partitioning since at least f9 if not 
before then!

phil