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Fedora Core 4 Installation Guide

Posted by timothy on from the bravo-for-documentation dept.

ogo writes "The Fedora Documentation Project recently announced that the first Installation Guide for Fedora Core is available. It is specifically for Fedora Core 4, which will be released publicly on June 13, and x86 hardware."

31 comments

  1. A good sign by treff89 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This is a good sign on behalf of both Fedora core, and the Linux community in general. Where previously installing and simple operaton were cited by anti-Linux users as negatives, now these attributes rank as extremely good advantages. If Linux in general keeps up the direction and momentum, there will continue to be less and less reasons that it is not as good as alternatives. Fedora: I salute you.

    1. Re:A good sign by kosmosik · · Score: 1

      But such guides were aviable for any decent (I mean XXI century :P) versions of RHL/RHEL... Software is useless if you don't have manual describing such basic stuff like instalation...

  2. Could have done with on Saturday by Nighttime · · Score: 1

    On Friday night I managed to find an FTP server where the admin hadn't secured the Fedora Core 4 directory. Grabbed the four ISOs and by Saturday afternoon, I was enjoying a fresh FC4 installation.

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    1. Re:Could have done with on Saturday by jeremiah_baruch · · Score: 1

      I just did a search on toreentspy and found the iso's there too. Will there be DVD iso's avialble for this release?

    2. Re:Could have done with on Saturday by Nighttime · · Score: 1

      There was a DVD ISO for FC2 and FC3 if memory serves. I managed to find one unsecured FTP site that had a DVD ISO for FC4, but as I was only getting 10KB/s from that site and maxing out my bandwidth downloading the CD ISOs from another site, I went for the CDs.

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    3. Re:Could have done with on Saturday by lurch84 · · Score: 0

      FC4's been available as a development release for a while now, I've been running it for the last month or so with no problems. I'm skeptical that anything got patched up between the "development" FC and the official release that wasn't available through yum

  3. Apple's started a trend! by timdorr · · Score: 3, Funny

    Fedora's switching to Intel too!

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    1. Re:Apple's started a trend! by DS_hacker · · Score: 1

      In other news, Bill Gates has announced that Windows Longhorn will only run on PPC-based systems.

    2. Re:Apple's started a trend! by hdparm · · Score: 1

      Will it include Longhorn?

  4. Fedora Core 4 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I don't know if this is the real thing, but this torrent alleges to be a copy of Fedora Core 4 snatched from a mirror that accidentally made it downloadable a little early:

    http://thepiratebay.org/details.php?id=3343536

    1. Re:Fedora Core 4 by afd8856 · · Score: 1

      New: 0day warez with open source :)

      (yeah, I know and use tpb and etree, so don't bother explaining me about legal torrents)

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  5. Fedora not Red Hat by Tharkban · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Way to go on the install guide, I might have used it years ago when I was lost and confused, not to mention afraid installing linux.

    On another note, shouldn't news about Fedora have the Fedora logo next to it, instead of Red Hat? Subtle point, and I don't want to bash Red Hat, they're great, and will be supporting Fedora, but they're not the same thing anymore.

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    1. Re:Fedora not Red Hat by Rudeboy777 · · Score: 1

      Not the same thing, but they are the same company. Should there be different logos for stories about Windows XP vs Server 2K3?

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    2. Re:Fedora not Red Hat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yes. Just as we should have Fedora Foundation and Red Hat icons, we should have Microsoft and... err, Microsoft icons.

  6. Looks not a whole lot different than FC3 by suitepotato · · Score: 2, Interesting

    and it really needs a DVD iso ASAP. Doing the CD shuffle is a colossal pain in the arse, especially if you do a custom install with less than everything. I usually do everything the first few times to test it and see what I can break or make work for production, but when it comes to a custom, a DVD is the only way to go.

    Disk Druid was already fairly competent as a partition tool, even on multiboot systems so that wasn't hard on the last release.

    Mysteriously, the sound system set itself to MUTE so if you didn't hear a test sound during initial config on first boot but it reported successfully finding your hardware, don't panic. Tell it you heard it and troubleshoot after when you get to Gnome.

    Can hardly wait to see how long it takes to make this thing collapse in a gibbering heap of endless loops. I hope they've nailed some of the pesky bugs from FC3 and give me a new challenge because I'd use FC every day in my business if just a few problems went away. At least I rate it way higher than Ubuntu or anything else short of Red Hat ES.

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    1. Re:Looks not a whole lot different than FC3 by Reverend528 · · Score: 1
      and it really needs a DVD iso ASAP. Doing the CD shuffle is a colossal pain in the arse, especially if you do a custom install with less than everything.

      I prefer network-based installations for this very reason.

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    2. Re:Looks not a whole lot different than FC3 by ssimontis · · Score: 2, Informative

      The only problem with Disk Druid, IMO, is that reiserfs is still not supported when creating a new partition. I keep a copy of Knoppix lying around for this very reason.

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  7. Linux needs to fix package management by Bruha · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I recently went Mac *ducks* and while you dont have massive respositories and things like that. Their package management .app system is by far the best solution.

    Tracks executables by inode not directory so I can stick my programs wherever I feel like it.

    97% of all system libs and such are standard with the OS and available to the coders.

    The other 3% of libs and custom code are just packaged into the .app file which nearly eliminates lib version conflicts.

    While Free is always better OS X has the polish that I wish Linux currently does not have in a number of areas.

    1. Re:Linux needs to fix package management by superpulpsicle · · Score: 1

      Well if you want to talk about best package management overall, nobody comes close to Aix.

      Shouldn't even bother bragging Mac over linux. Cause Aix makes Mac look ordinary. You can even update patches in Aix going from 1 to 2, 2 to 3 etc.

  8. Here's the Torrent by Jsutton1027w · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://www.torrentspy.com/download.asp?id=326159

    I don't have any way of verifying that these are real, but I'm getting them right now.

    1. Re:Here's the Torrent by skinfitz · · Score: 1

      Ha you pirate! I'm going to tell on you - NOBODY pirates Linux and gets away with it.

      Oh wait.

  9. Re:If you need an installation guide.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    actualy, just make it to where a competent user can read and understand on-screen instructions and you've got it.. oh, wait! they do! even slackware does (no fancy config tools).

    i'm too lazy to hit the shift key, and i use linux. if i felt like working, i'd fix windows.

    an installation guide for linux is not nessecary, but an adequit and comprehensive user's guide might be...

    my advice - learn about hardware and learn the differences between the software /before\ installation.

  10. Re:If you need an installation guide.... by whitehatsid · · Score: 1

    Nightmare, I installed it onto my Toshiba M30, it work great! Although i am waiting for the source, as the kernal has NO support for NTFS. Nightmare for me, as i have a partition, with Xp and Fedora core.

  11. Re:If you need an installation guide.... by HaydnH · · Score: 1

    I use FC3 - if you need NTFS support just download a custom kernel and tick the NTFS support option before compiling it... if you haven't installed a custom kernel before I suggest you read up on it first though - google will yield plenty of results.

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  12. Linux NTFS Sourceforge project... by rklrkl · · Score: 1

    Keep an eye on the RPMs that are part of the Linux NTFS Sourceforge project - they're usually fairly fast at putting up RPMs for new kernel releases.

  13. Re:If you need an installation guide.... by XO · · Score: 1

    What moron modded me as a troll?

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  14. How do I upgrade Fedora by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    How do I upgrade Fedora Core 3 to Fedora Core 4 using yum or Smart Package manager ?