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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."

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  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.

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

    Fedora's switching to Intel too!

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  3. 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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    Tharkban (It is a signature after all)
  4. 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 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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      Scott Simontis
  5. 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.