Use the Live CD to "try out" distributions. Download and burn the DVD, and use that for installations. This seems to be true with Fedora. Each distribution seems to work a little bit different, but the live CD's seem to be good for trying them out without changing what is on your current hard drive. Just don't "Install" if you want to test! Fedora seems to install "best" from the DVD. Hope that helps, Ken <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Dean S. Messing <<a href="mailto:deanm@sharplabs.com">deanm@sharplabs.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> A colleague of mine is interested in trying Linux Fedora 10 on a new machine he's purchased. He asked me to help him. I thought I'd try the "Live install" of which I've read, but have never done before. It seems like a fast way to install and time-to-install is a bit limited. I looked at the Installation Guide at <<a href="http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f10/en_US/index.html" target="_blank">docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f10/en_US/index.html</a>> but it didn't seem to answer my questions. Maybe I missed it. So ... I presume that the machine will "just come up", running in-memory from the Live Image on the DVD. (Is that right?) So, how does one get the in-memory system onto a root partition? Does the Anaconda Installer get involved in the process so that a "regular install" occurs using the Live data as source? Pointers to instructions will be appreciated. I've copied my colleague so that he can see for himself what helpful chaps y'all are. :-) Thanks Dean -- fedora-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</a> Guidelines: <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines</a> </blockquote></div>