Half a Page of Scribbled Linux

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.exe
C:> 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.

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)