Fedora 21: How do I get to the Software Selection screen as shown in the Install Guide?

[John Austin]

On Fri, 2014-12-12 at 08:27 -1000, Jim Lewis wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
>   I am a bit embarrassed asking this, as it must be something simple I
> overlooked. I have had no trouble installing the previous 20 versions of
> Fedora, but 21 has me stumped. I am using the Fedora 21 server DVD
> image, want the Mate base environment, and want to pick several add-ons.
> In general I want the screen shown in section 5.4.7 of the Installation
> Guide. When I attempt this the only base option is Fedora Server, and
> there aren't nearly enough add-ons to pick from.
> 
>   Thanks in advance for any help on this. I would really like to start
> using 21.
> 
> Jim Lewis
> RHCSA
> Senior Software Engineer (retired)
> 
> 

I too was confused!

I want things like xfce, gedit, pcmanfm, evolution, kmail, kdm, ...

I don't want Gnome

I tried Fedora-Server-DVD-x86_64-21.iso which was a total failure
not even X would work without installing extra bits
eg yum install xorg-x11-drv-*

ja at paxos F21 2$ ltr -h
total 5.0G
-rw-r--r--. 1 ja sysadmin 1.4G Dec  3 21:37 Fedora-Live-Workstation-x86_64-21-5.iso
-rw-r--r--. 1 ja sysadmin 424M Dec  4 00:45 Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-21.iso
-rw-r--r--. 1 ja sysadmin 2.0G Dec  4 00:46 Fedora-Server-DVD-x86_64-21.iso
-rw-r-----. 1 ja sysadmin 424M Dec 10 14:04 boot.iso
-rw-r-----. 1 ja sysadmin 400K Dec 11 16:33 bfo.usb
-rw-r-----. 1 ja sysadmin 892M Dec 11 17:18 Fedora-Live-Xfce-x86_64-21-5.iso
-rw-r--r--. 1 ja sysadmin 1.5K Dec 11 18:34 README

I found using Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-21.iso the best option
Lots of choices available
It took about 30 minutes to download my choices (XFCE) with a 2Mbyte/s ADSL line

Very inconvenient compared with NFS mounting a "complete" DVD and installing from there

Then there are the other machines to install ...
dump 0f - /dev/sdb7 | restore -rf - 	approach works Ok - very fast 20sec ish
but its easy to have finger trouble sorting things out after the restore!

John