[Novalug] Fedora 12

Walt Smith waltechmail@yahoo.com
Tue Dec 8 19:50:26 EST 2009


hi,

Since there's been some mention of F12,
I thought I'd relate a few pieces of info associated with
the installation using the LiveCD.

I used the Gnome version.
When the Live CD installs, it apparently installs a binary image
to the hard drive rather than installing RPM packages.
IOW, one big image is copied with dirs and files.

There are apparently no RPM's on the CD.
There are no kde files of any kind,
including no qt files.  There is Abiword and
no OpenOffice.  There is Firefox 3.5.4.
There is no gimp.  There is a image viewer.
There installs SElinux, default is LVM, and there is a firewall.

The squashfs is viewable doing the following.
1. mount the CD to /mnt
2. $ cd   til you find the .img file.
3. then mount the image file also to /mnt.
( as I recall).

Since the Live CD is an image copy, I don't believe it
should be used to "restore" anything.  It'd probably just rewrite
everything.  IOW- it'd erase anything you had on the HD.

I don't have a guess if it would make a good "rescue CD" ..

I now have the DVD ordered..

Walt ......... 



I was able to mount the squashfs image.





      



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