[Mageia-discuss] Installer: Server v. desktop kernel: No choice?

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 18:45:43 +0100
Maurice Batey <maurice at bcs.org.uk> wrote:
> Having installed Mageia-1 (from DVD), I find it has installed the
> server kernels, rather than the desktop kernels.
> 
> Presumably that's because my PC has 4GB RAM, but - on this 1-user system
> - I would have preferred the desktop kernels to be installed.
> 
> Did I miss an installation option, to choose server v. desktop?

Not answering your question, but is there a Web page that explains the
differences between the -desktop and -server flavours?

(for the record, I'm successfully using a -desktop kernel on a
64-bit machine with 8GB RAM)

Regards

Antoine.