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dandnsmith · Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 1:29 pm Post subject: fedora 15 on LXF147 - Live?

I've just been trying to get Fedora 15 running from the DVD as a 'Live' installation.

All the options in the menu say 'install ...' -
so is there one which really is to run live from the DVD?
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lok1950 · Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 3:29 pm Post subject:

It's the full DVD install image not the live version at all see this http://www.linuxformat.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=13905

Enjoy the Choice Smile

dandnsmith · Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 4:07 pm Post subject:

I was aware of that thread, which didn't seem to address my conception.
Nearly all the versions on the magazine DVDs I've tried, which are labelled as bootable (rather than ISOs) are 'live', so ...
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nelz · Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 5:19 pm Post subject:

In order to be "nearly all" there must be at least one that isn't live. Congratulations on finding it Smile

More seriously, Fedora are one of the few distributions that still keep their live and install discs separate.
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lok1950 · Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 6:15 pm Post subject:

They have several live spins available Gnome 3 just being the default have a look at there downloads page for a full list KDE and LXDE being the major ones http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora bit partial to fedora since I've been using it since FC 3 Very Happy

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dandnsmith · Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2011 7:38 am Post subject:

Thanks for those posts, and also the link for fedora d'loads.
I started my linux acquaintance with RedHat (forget now which version, but it might be RH2), kept up with it (intermittently) and then on to FC2, then FC4. From there there was a dabble with SUSE and some other, and then Ubuntu (which seemed so much better to me).
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