On Wed, 2020-05-06 at 06:51 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
On 5/6/20 5:32 AM, ja wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-05-06 at 10:06 +0100, ja wrote:
> > On Tue, 2020-05-05 at 16:51 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> > > On 5/5/20 4:21 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> > > > On 5/5/20 1:11 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> > > > > I looked and looked and only found a F32 server Netinstall
image.
> > > > Use this:
> > > >
https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/32/Everything/x86_...
> > > >
> > > > You can choose the workstation option from the install options.
> > > thank you. that is what I need.
> > >
> > > Got through the basics, like partitioning like I want
> > >
> > > and now to software selection and there is Xfce Desktop!
> > >
> > > Hopefully on my way.
> > >
> > >
> > I used to use netinstall but now download the
> > xfce live image
> > 1.5G Apr 28 15:40 Fedora-Xfce-Live-x86_64-32-1.6.iso
> >
> > dd to a fast USB stick
> > Boot and select "Install to Disk"
> > On a clean SSD the time to install after partitioning is about 5 minutes.
> > Ok - you then have to add any extras.
> >
> > John
> >
> >
> I was wrong
> Just installed on another machine - 3 minutes!
And then how long for dnf update?
Not long from my local repo
And another reboot for the new kernel?
less than a minute?
Most of my time is in getting the partitions how I want them and various
other steps before selecting the apps I want.
Yep
The actual download and install was maybe 10 min.
and the second, third, ...
machine?
And CDs burn faster than DVDs :)
400MB/s read/write on the USB stick
ja@harting F32 3$ time (sync; cp /tmp/Fedora-Xfce-Live-x86_64-32-1.6.iso /media/GTX3;
sync)
real 0m4.445s
user 0m0.001s
sys 0m0.646s
ja@harting F32 5$ ltr -h /tmp/Fedora-Xfce-Live-x86_64-32-1.6.iso
-rw-rw-r--. 1 ja ja 1.5G May 6 14:14 /tmp/Fedora-Xfce-Live-x86_64-32-1.6.iso
It is called "Total Cost of Install" ;)