What's on my computer, how it got there and how to use it
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Setting up printers is a lot easier than it used to be. On the Fedora Gnome menu, System->Administration->Printing is all that was needed. The printer attached to the local parallel port was automatically detected. The networked HP Photosmart 8450 was easy too, provided I knew it was connected with AppSocket/HP JetDirect. All I had to enter was its host name, manufacturer and model.
Preparation
Downloaded the Fedora 8 x86_64 ISO DVD from Fedora Project and burned it. When I booted it I got isolinux Disk error 32 AX=42B5, drive 9F.
The cause was the ISO file didn’t download completely. It was 2GB (seems suspicious, eh?) when it should have been 3.6GB. Then I downloaded it via Bittorrent with Azureus and checked SHASUM with ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/binary/sha1sum.exeC:> shasum Fedora-8-dvd-x86_64. Then it was OK.
Since this is a new machine, from the Fedora 8 install disk boot menu, I ran Memory test for an entire cycle.
Installation video was screwed up. The screen was too big for the monitor and I couldn’t see the right side. Switching from the auto-selected NVidia driver to the standard vesa driver fixed that. For installation, at the initial prompt to install or upgrade, press Tab and add “resolution=1280×1024 vesa” to the end of the line.
Partition Allocation
Vista on sda2 was originally the entire disk. I booted Vista and used Disk Management to shrink the partition.
| Device | Size | Type | File System | Use |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| sda1 | 10.4GB | primary | ntfs | recovery |
| sda2 | 163GB | primary | ntfs | Vista |
| sda3 | 98.7MB | primary | ext3 | F8 /boot |
| sda4 | 146GB | extended | ||
| sda5 | 136GB | logical | LVM | LVM |
| sdb1 | 107MB | primary | ext3 | unused |
| sdb2 | 806MB | primary | linux-swap | old swap |
| sdb3 | 29.8GB | primary | fat32 | Old WinXP |
| sdb4 | 219GB | extended | ||
| sdb5 | 43.0GB | logical | ext3 | /mnt/xfer |
| sdb6 | 16.1GB | logical | ext3 | /mnt/fc6root |
| sdb7 | 10.7GB | logical | ext3 | /mnt/fc6home |
| sdb8 | 136GB | logical | lvm | LVM |
| sdb9 | 3142MB | logical | linux-swap | swap |
Logical group LogGroup00 is composed of the two physical volumes on sda5 and sdb8. Within the logical group are two logical volumes:
/ 10GB on LogGroup00-LogVol00
/home 50GB on LogGroup00-LogVol01
Installation Settings
System clock not set to UTC since this machine dual boots with Vista. Turned on NTP and set “sync before service start”.
I had network delays using IPv6 with Fedora Core 6 (see earlier post). I don’t use any IPv6 so I turned it off in system-config-network General tab, uncheck “Enable IPv6 configuration for this interface”. Alternately, I could have used boot option noipv6, e.g. “linux noipv6”
SE linux policy set to enforcing (Targeted)
Gnome is the window manager by default.
Install software
From fedorafaq.org: install mplayer, flash, ntfs-3g, evince, alacarte, 64 bit flash and java, nvidia driver.
To Do
ssh from known IPs only
KDE: Settings -> Desktop Effects -> Compiz Fusion (vice kwin)