Linux Resources

Fedora Core 4

Installation

Download the following five files (for PC) at this download site using a high-speed (DSL or cable-modem) internet connection

   FC4-i386-disc1.iso     635MB
   FC4-i386-disc2.iso     638MB
   FC4-i386-disc3.iso     638MB
   FC4-i386-disc4.iso     680MB
   FC4-i386-rescuecd.iso   84MB

 Verify the correctness of these downloaded files with sha1sum
 software on Windows DOS command window (download the executable from
   ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/binary/sha1sum.exe)
 Then right-click on each of these downloaded iso files, and record it
 on a separate CD (download isorecorder software from
    http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm)

Installation steps

Post installation configuration

Automated Software Update

After Fedora Core 4 installation,
  - shut down the computer
  - connect to a high speed internet connection (DSL or LAN)
    (preferrably using a ethernet cable)
  - boot the computer and login as root
  - update all patches using the following command
       yum update
    Since this command downloads several Mbytes, it may take up to 1 hour

Boot loader configuration

During bootup, a list of available operating systems are displayed
and a default OS will be selected if user does not choose any within
the specified duration. To customize this OS selection,
   Choose Fedora OS at the boot time
   Login as root
   Click on Hat -> System Tools -> Terminal
     vi /etc/grub.conf
        there will be two Fedora versions listed on this file
         (one during installation, the other during yum update)
	comment out the earlier Fedora version by inserting '#' at
          the beginning of each line of the earlier version.
        set
	  default = 1           -- refers to Windows
	  timeout = 3           -- allow 3 sec to choose OS at boot time
         save and exit the editor

Desktop Environment configuration

Fedora comes with two desktop environments (Gnome and KDE) with Gnome
as the default environment. To change the default environment to KDE,
   vi /etc/sysonfig/desktop
          DESKTOP="KDE"
   save and close editor

User Environment configuration

--Prabu
2/7/06