fc3 installation issues & solutions
Rick Chen
rick.chen at optusnet.com.au
Wed Nov 17 03:17:32 UTC 2004
Hello all
I have installed and happily running fedora core 3 now. Over the last
few days issues with fc3 I have encountered with.
media check error
solution: linux mediacheck ide=nodma
setting up yum mirror
solution:
http://fedoranews.org/tchung/yum-gpg
http://fedoranews.org/tchung/yum-mirrorlist
fedora overwrite .bashrc and .bash_profile
cp .bashrc .bash_profile path/to/backup
and restore if necessary
nVidia driver
download latest nVidia driver http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux.html
no longer required kernel source to compil latest nVidia driver
edit /etc/inittab
id:5:initdefault:
change
id:3:initdefault:
log in as root
bash NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run
edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
comment out Load dri and Driver "nv"
# Load "dri"
.
.
# Driver "nv"
directly under #Driver "nv"
add this Driver nvidia
modprobe nvidia to produce device files in /dev
cp -a /dev/nvidia* /etc/udev/devices
chown root.root /etc/udev/devices/nvidia*
change id:3:initdefault: in /etc/inittab
to id:5:initdefault:
shutdown hang
solution: append acpi=off to /etc/grub.conf
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet acpi=off
change domain name
gedit /etc/hosts
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 yourhostname localhost.localdomain localhost
gedit /etc/sysconfig/network
NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=yourhostname
#HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain
to enhance my experience with fedora I always install
apt-get
http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/3/apt/apt-0.5.15cnc6-1.1.fc3.fr.i386.rpm
synaptic
http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/3/synaptic/synaptic-0.55.1-1.1.fc3.fr.i386.rpm
with a console
su
password
rpm -Uvh apt-0.5.15cnc6-1.1.fc3.fr.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh synaptic-0.55.1-1.1.fc3.fr.i386.rpm
apt-get update
synaptic (choose packages you want)
if you want to listen to mp3 and watch DVD.
you need to install xmms xmms-mp3 xmms-other-decoder xine
other great sources
http://fedoranews.org/
http://www.fedorafaq.org/
http://home.gagme.com/greg/linux/fc3-tips.php
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