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Linux, BSD, Unix etc. - Fedora Core 6

Motosampy - Nov 02, 2006 - 08:05
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Just installed Fedora Core 6 on my PegII G3/600, and I'm impressed ! Works like a charm, is a lot faster that Debian, slightly faster than Kubuntu 6.10, and most of all it's stable (which Kubuntu 6.10 is not always yet). And it was pretty simple to install. Needed just small modification to Gunnes Grub script for Ubuntu to make it boot after installing from the DVD (The installation itself can be started direct from OF).

Trizt - Nov 02, 2006 - 08:40
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I liked RedHat more back in the good old time, before both RedHat8 and Fedora.

Gentoo PPC been up and running for 152 days today, so it starts to feel somewhat stable Razz

Motosampy - Nov 02, 2006 - 09:14
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Gentoo is probably very stable and fast , but the istallation is pain in the ass... Never got it to work, tried for 2 weeks, then tested the others and installed 3 different distributions each taking about 30mins....

Trizt - Nov 02, 2006 - 10:35
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Much depends on which stage level you decide to install Gentoo at, today the default is stage3 and you can use those precompiled packages too and you can get everything installed on a hour, of course nothing as fast as the 20 mins it used to install RedHat7.3. The main requierment for the Gentoo install is to read the installation handbook, if you aren't expert and know how things works in Gentoo.

lisardman - Nov 02, 2006 - 15:00
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I have to say that the new fedora core 6 installations are great. It is really good. and everything just "works"

ironfist - Nov 02, 2006 - 15:51
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Jepp, I have installed several FC6 at school and it just works(tm).

There is a nice bug in the installer, though. If you click 'Fedora Extras'
the installer crash and restart. Razz

Trizt - Nov 02, 2006 - 15:57
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There been bugs with selecting "Extras" in earlier versions, think it's been part of the installer since RedHat 7.0.

gunne - Nov 02, 2006 - 18:17
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Hi eveybody,

lisardman wrote:

I have to say that the new fedora core 6 installations are great. It is really good. and everything just "works"

Before you said to me Grub was unnecessary ?

ironfist - Nov 02, 2006 - 19:18
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Gunne:
Yes, with Open Firmware there is no need for GRUB.

lisardman - Nov 02, 2006 - 19:18
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excuse me gunne.. I can't understand now what you are talking about? what has grub to do with FC6? except that FC6 uses grub as a default bootloader?

gunne - Nov 02, 2006 - 20:10
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lisardman,

He he Smile

I'm just trying joking with you. But before you told med grub was unnecessary...

gunne - Nov 02, 2006 - 20:13
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ironfist,

ironfist wrote:

Yes, with Open Firmware there is no need for GRUB.

I have SmartFirmware in my Pegasos Smile

lisardman - Nov 03, 2006 - 06:56
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hello gunne..

why do you have to trash the thread with your bogus talk? If you have nothing better to come with, please be quiet instead.

gunne - Nov 03, 2006 - 15:53
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Hi lisardman,

No problem, I can keep quiet.

Enjoy Fedora, and have a pleasant weekend.

DJBase - Nov 22, 2006 - 19:40
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I tried FC6 today. Installation worked without any problem (even 'Fedora Extras' works) but how the heck do I boot the installed system?

gunne - Nov 22, 2006 - 20:01
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DJBase,

Please ask Lisardman, I have been asked to keep quiet.

DJBase - Nov 22, 2006 - 20:06
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hehe, nevermind, I just found the command line. Wink

lisardman - Nov 22, 2006 - 20:13
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@Gunne

Why do you have to keep drag this things up. you previously trashed the thread.. that was why I asked you to quit write alot of crap.. ..

gunne - Nov 22, 2006 - 20:28
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Lisardman,

You are so great !

dholm - Nov 22, 2006 - 20:32
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This sounds like a lot of smoke (and mirrors). Could we get back on topic please?

Trizt - Nov 23, 2006 - 05:33
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Is the kernel-source-<version>.ppc.rpm still missing in FC?

Motosampy - Nov 28, 2006 - 17:56
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The boot config is written to yaboot/yaboot.conf. You can download the grub script package by Gunne for Ubuntu, and edit it according to your configuration, the needed stuff can be extracted from the yaboot.conf file.

e.g my yaboot.conf:

# yaboot.conf generated by anaconda

boot=/dev/hdb1
init-message=Welcome to Fedora Core!\nHit <TAB> for boot options

partition=0
timeout=80
install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot
delay=5
enablecdboot
enableofboot
enablenetboot
nonvram
mntpoint=/boot/yaboot
usemount

image=/vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6
label=2.6.18-1.2849.f
read-only
initrd=/initrd-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6.img
root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
append="rhgb quiet"

image=/vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6
label=linux
read-only
initrd=/initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.img
root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
append="rhgb quiet"

And my bootline in grub.cfg is:

linux (hd0,0)/vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 video=radeon:1280x768@60 quiet splash
initrd (hd0,0)/initrd-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6.img

Trizt - Nov 29, 2006 - 06:40
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Motosampy wrote:

And my bootline in grub.cfg is:

linux (hd0,0)/vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 video=radeon:1280x768@60 quiet splash
initrd (hd0,0)/initrd-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6.img

why not

Code:

root (hd0,0)
linux /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 video=radeon:1280x768@60 quiet splash
initrd /initrd-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6.img

Motosampy - Dec 01, 2006 - 05:34
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Would that make any difference ?

Trizt - Dec 01, 2006 - 05:54
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sure, your don't have to put the (hd0,0) infront of all the paths, IMHO less risk to type something wrong.