Fedora Core formalism

[Net Llama!]

On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> OK, so I got my fancy new box set up so I can chain load FC on my second
> drive from SuSE on my first drive.  I use LILO 'cause I don't know
> nuthin' about GRUB.

It might not hurt to learn about GRUB, seeing as how all the major distros 
are now using GRUB.

> I loaded up FC-6 on the second hard drive.  It constructs a root
> partition and something called a VolGroup, rather than a swap partition
> (which is what I would expect).  Who can enlighten me?

The VolGroup is the LVM block o-data that FC uses by default in place of 
the more traditional partitions.  Normally swap isn't included inside an 
LVM volume.  Are you sure that you have a swap partition somewhere?

>
> Also, the FC installer installed Gnome, and I don't remember being asked
> to make a selection between Gnome and KDE.  How can I get it to install
> KDE as the default?

Installing KDE & making it the default or two completely separate tasks. 
You can use yum to install whatever you want.  If you want to make KDE the 
default for a specific user, then just select it when logging in, and 
you'll get prompted to make it the default.  if you want KDE to be the 
default for everyone, you can configure it in /etc/sysconfig/desktop


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