Fwd: Re: rant of the day: installing fedora

[Robert Holtzman]

On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 12:12:12PM +0200, François Patte wrote:
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> Sujet: Re: rant of the day: installing fedora
> Date : Mon, 08 Jul 2013 10:54:28 +0200
> De : François Patte <francois.patte at mi.parisdescartes.fr>
> Organisation : Université Paris Descartes
> Pour : jehan.procaccia at tem-tsp.eu
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> Le 08/07/2013 10:02, jehan procaccia a écrit :
> > I did had the possibility to partition manually ! I choosed my disk,
> > uncheck it and check it again then it proposed me to partition
> > manullay ("personalisé "). that's for the manual way to install,
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> Thanks for this. I could (I hope, because the feed back for the user is
> minimal...) keep my previous partitionning. BTW, the logic of this
> escapes my mind! It is like if there is some secret door!
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> Now, the install has begun and... I don't know what will be installed....
> I had a minimal choice (gnome, xfce...) I can see that a lot of gnome
> packages will be installed: It will take me a lot of time to get rid of
> this packages... because I want a totally gnome free installation! And I
> will have to check carefully what is missing....

You want to be Gnome free? you can download the KDE, lxde, or xfce
spins. I think the last two are Gnome but KDE isn't.

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> Also, no time for installation is displayed, I'm stcked there waiting
> for an end!
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> Many thanks to all those crapy packagers who think that common people
> are to stupid to manage their own computer!

Wrong!

Everyone else seems to be able to manage their own computers. Not sure
what your problem is.

A poor workman blames his tools.

-- 
Bob Holtzman
If you think you're getting free lunch, 
check the price of the beer.
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