The Fedora Core 5 Install Experience 67
daria42 writes "A detailed image gallery walks the reader through the complete Fedora Core 5 installation."
The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time. -- Merrick Furst
Re:Abrupt.... (Score:3, Insightful)
The Fedora Core 5 Install Experience
A detailed image gallery walks the reader through.
Now that's concise, especially if you leave the link out.
Re:Full Text, In case of Slashdotting (Score:2)
I was looking at the images... (Score:2, Funny)
What are we supposed to look for?
BTW, "The Fedora Core 5 Install Experience" sounds like a Fusion group's name. It probably work geat in Silicon Valley!
Fedora's version of KDE is broken (Score:2, Interesting)
I think applications like Konqueror [konqueror.org] File Manager, K3B [k3b.org] for burning CDs and DVDs, AmaroK [kde.org] for listening to music, Kaffeine [sourceforge.net] for watching movies, etc are a must for a desktop computer. It's a shame that Red Hat doesn't put more resources into ensuring KDE is usable on their systems.
Anyway, I'll stick with ArkLinux [arklinux.org], Kubuntu [kubuntu.org] and openSUSE [opensuse.org] since KDE actually works on those
Re:Fedora's version of KDE is broken (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Fedora's version of KDE is broken (Score:1)
Odd. In the last couple updates, xcompmgr started working perfectly with KDE on FC5. I take that as a very high water mark of... "non-brokenness".
The ??? step *SOLVED*! (Score:5, Funny)
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*Note to mods: please notice the vain attempt at humour!*
Re:The ??? step *SOLVED*! (Score:2, Funny)
2. ???*POST TO SLASHDOT*
3. PROFFIT!
4. Watch your server melt into a pile of goo because of all the pictures.
Re:The ??? step *SOLVED*! (Score:2)
WTF? (Score:5, Informative)
Looks good to me. I'm a little bummed they removed the right click option for terminal shell and it seems that whenever I do a view details of the boot process my video is hosed once the desktop comes up (ATI 200M).
The add/remove programs only seems to work when connected to the web.
Install was smooth and easy, better driver support than windows XP Pro 64-bit edition (thanks for nothing HP, broadcom, ATI & conexant).
Re:WTF? (Score:1)
yum install nautilus-open-terminal
It was mentioned in the release notes
Re:WTF? (Score:2)
I added a launcher on the toolbar (even better IMHO) right next to the terminal service client (which I use to manage windows servers).
Re:WTF? (Score:1)
Regards,
Steve
Re:WTF? (Score:2)
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Re:WTF? (Score:2)
One where they thought the MS Windows registry was a good thing to emulate - only you get to have one for every seperate user and you can't migrate it to a different machine. Gconf unfortunately still lurks at the heart of gnome way back from the days when it was a politically motivated project by people unfamiliar with *nix or the concept of a multiuser environment connecte
My Fedora Core 5 Install Experience. (Score:2, Funny)
Do full media check.
Reburn Disc 3 due to corruption.
Reboot.
Insert disc.
Do full media check.
Install.
Freeze at selecting time zone.
Reboot.
Select packages.
Computer restarts at Disc 2.
Reboot.
Computer gets to the end, Disc 5, 99%, and gives corrupt file error. Will not allow you to recheck the file in case of a bad read.
Take discs, smash, shred, and burn.
Install Debian.
-What I did.
Re:My Fedora Core 5 Install Experience. (Score:3, Interesting)
I typically just go with the minimum net install, and then apt-get whatever I need.
Re:My Fedora Core 5 Install Experience. (Score:4, Informative)
For everything else, I use a USB drive with the bootnet.img [redwire.net] image on it, or a CD/mini-CD with their 7M boot.iso [redwire.net].
Re:My Fedora Core 5 Install Experience. (Score:2)
One of my biggest pet peeves with RH/Fedora and Mandwhatevertheycallitthisweek was when doing a net install, you installed from their static set of packages, _then_ updates were done. The needless redundancy of installing 200+ megs of packages, then having to install the updates to those packages seems a bit ridiculous, IMO.
That's one of my biggest joys of doing a Debian install; you set up your sources, and the packages yo
Re:My Fedora Core 5 Install Experience. (Score:1)
Have they taken care of the 'updatability' deal with their network based install yet?
They are working on it. In Fedora Core 5, much infrastructure work is in place since the installer now uses yum to install packages. What you ask for is planned for inclusion in FC6.
Removable USB HD? (Score:2)
Re:My Fedora Core 5 Install Experience. (Score:1)
What the idiots have taken it upon themself to download is a guarded secret, but they have no problem with saturating a connection for hours on end, puking when the connection drops, or throwing away 10 hours of work
Re:My Fedora Core 5 Install Experience. (Score:1)
FC4 could at least use its own distro CDs to resolve dependencies when adding RPMs post-install. FC5 can't do anything without contacting the mothership.
This is because FC5 uses a brand-new graphical package management tool, Pirut, for this purpose. They are working to add this functionality to Pirut, and my guess is that it will be ready in time for FC6.
As a workaround, you can create a local repository with the contents of the CDs/DVD, and add it to the yum configuration.
Re:My Fedora Core 5 Install Experience. (Score:3, Informative)
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Same here, and I'm a RedHat Fan! (Score:2)
I have been a RedHat fan since 4.2, followed them right through Fedora. *Never* had a problems installing RedHat on any system, unless it had bad hardware, or badly burned disks. In the case with FC5, I was stumped. Seriously stumped. What did they do?
Now, I use CEntOS [centos.org], and works like I expect.
Re:My Fedora Core 5 Install Experience. (Score:5, Insightful)
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I used to get this all the time, and proceed with the install anyway. Never had a problem. Now I just skip the media check as an uneccessary waste of time.
check the media check (Score:2)
I prefer Stanton Finley's RH/Fedora websites (Score:5, Informative)
The Fedora Core 5 Install Experience? (Score:4, Interesting)
I couldn't shake Jimi Hendrix doing are you experienced as an interior sound track. :)
Finally! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Finally! (Score:1)
Re:Worst Slashdot post in ages (Score:2)
Rather suspicious-looking user page http://slashdot.org/~daria42 [slashdot.org] ...
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Not enough (Score:1)
I really like the new ASP.Net HOWTO video series [microsoft.com]. I found it to be very effective to give new web developers head start with the IDE.
mepis (Score:1)
The real post (Score:4, Informative)
I'm posting this even though I moderated, just because the story really really is in need of help. (translation, you get two fp trolls)
The "story" is just a bunch of screenshots, and a link to a blog on techrepublic.com.com that you need to register to see. Once I got into the blog, it wasn't even on the page, because this was posted there April 20th [com.com] with the following "content":
Tags: open source, linux, virtualization, the hot button, steven s. warren, xen
I just finished my installation of Fedora Core 5. It was a painless installation. I will be concentrating next on getting XenSource installed using Fedora Core 5. The IT grapevine says it is easier to install Xen on FC5 than FC4.
Has anyone out there installed Xen on FC5 yet? If so, I would like to be able to pick your brain if I stumble and trust me I will stumble. Xen seems really difficult to install from the initial reading I have done. I have a sneaking suspicion it is going to be painful. We shall see.
Click the link to view my FC5 Installation Gallery [flickr.com].
Note: You can also see my other Installation Galleries that I have done by reading the following blogs:Note: Here is my installation gallery [flickr.com] for Linspire Five-O
That was it, just a "have you done it?" and photos, on flickr no less. It was done by Steven S. Warren though, who was the contributer to zdnet, so it wasn't out and out theft, just quite dumb. As someone previous said, looks like they just posted it to display all the ads on each page. But if you want to see that, there is allways the Printable Version [zdnet.com.au] with only 1 ad.
Re:My Recap (Score:2)
My experience (Score:2)
Re:My experience (Score:1)
wondered why the fuck the "much faster" GNOME 2.14 was running so slowly
Did you run with SELinux enabled? Rumor is that SELinux almost entirely cancels out the speed increase by Gnome 2.14. I run with SELinux disabled and I'd say that FC5 is much faster than FC4.
Oooh! (Score:3, Funny)
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Installing For Noobs (Score:1)
I really enjoy seeing these, its always helpful to show a new user, you say "see its this easy and here is the outcome".
my 4 year old son liked it (Score:2, Funny)
Now i am trying to find another 'picture book' for him because he is bored with FC5 after installing it 5 times a day for a week. I think he needs a new game. For the moment we are waiting for the release of FC6 picture book and the new Harry Potter Comic book.
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i gave my last 2 cents for CentOS
Everything (Score:2)