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Well, I dont know how you could go thru the install process unless you either do it for real
which means installing it to a partition
or thru Virtualization
Well, it will install on the laptop, when it's finished retrieving the rest of the install.img (currently, it's half way done)
I was just curious to know what would happen after, so I'd be prepared, but I guess I'll have to wait and see.
Well, we'll see what happens, if the Firefox from the Repo's is buggy, then I'll grab it direct from the site, and install it in /opt instead. If it's Fedora itself, then I'll just see what I can do to un-bug it then.
Thanks for your help, hopefully, this install.img will work alright, and I'll be booting into a freshly installed Fedora system before long.
I realised that when I saw that Slackware has 6 installation CD's and I have no idea which one I want.
At the moment I'm trying Fedora, if that works and I want to use it, then all well and good, if not, then I'll come back and have another look at Slackware to try and understand which images I need, and then work from there.
Sorry -- could not find a list of the CD contents but I only used the first two for a graphical workstation running Xfce desktop. The full distribution is listed here. CDs one and two contain the base system plus packages a ap d e f k l n t tcl x xap y.
Yeah, the letters were the part that lost me entirely. I might try again to understand it later, since for now...
We have success - Fedora 12 is now powering my laptop. Aside from a slightly longer boot-up time, and the SELinux I'm not used to having around, the improvement from Ubuntu Karmic is clear.
Thread can be marked solved.
Ubuntu is slowly but definatly falling out of favor with Fedora showing off now.
The only two nags so far are that I had to manually add myself to the Sudo list (never had to do that before, but it's done now) and I can't use Synaptic, my favorite package manager. But since that's for .deb based distros, I'll find another to learn.
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