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Re: linux reference

 
Karsten Breivik_1
Frequent Advisor

Re: linux reference

Redhat 9 is a very old release. Redhat changed the name of the free edition to Fedora a few years ago, and Fedora is now in release Core 4. Use that one instead.

If you coose to use RH 9, pls note that you may have problems getting the up2date patching utility working, throwing a cryptic error msg. This is because a root sertificate expired sometime in 2003. If so, you have to upgrade the root sertificate manually.

Also, you may have problems with some Intel/Compaq network cards - you may need to upgrade the drivers before you get online.
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Ngoh Chean Siung
Super Advisor

Re: linux reference

Hi,

Thanks for you feedback.

I try to download the doc for Fedora Core 4 Installation Guide (at http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/fedora-install-guide-en/) but there is not PDF or html format. It is very hard for me to read thru internet. Where I can get the copy for this file in PDF format?

regards.
Karsten Breivik_1
Frequent Advisor

Re: linux reference

Have not seen this in PDF. However it is very easy. Just go to

http://fedora.redhat.com/Download/

If you use an ordinary PC which has been able to run Windows, you should propably select the i386 downloads. This is the most common architecture. The x86_64 is for 64 bit architectures and ppc is for Mac Power PC.

Download the four(!) ISO images named

FC4-i386-disc1.iso
FC4-i386-disc2.iso
FC4-i386-disc3.iso
FC4-i386-disc4.iso

and burn them to CD's. If you are using win XP, you can use isorecorder to burn it

http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm

When you have burned the CD's just drop the first CD in the station and restart the machine.

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Sivakumar TS
Honored Contributor

Re: linux reference


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Ngoh Chean Siung
Super Advisor

Re: linux reference

Hi,

1) During the Redhat linux 9 installation, what is the required partition that need to hv? According to the user guide, swap, / and /boot is the compulsory. How about the others like /tmp, /home, /opt, /usr, /var and etc?

2) Hv 2 options to choose during the installation process for partioning. Automatic and manual (with disk druid). What is the partition that will be created if choosing automatic? Only swap, / and /boot?

3) For the boot loader, basically hv 2 which are GNUB (default) and LILO? What is the main different between these 2 boot loaders?

regards.
Karsten Breivik_1
Frequent Advisor

Re: linux reference

The only mandatory are / (root partition) and a swap partion. Note that the swap partition is not mounted, so you will not need to (or be able to) enter a mount point for it. I think you in principle can do without the swap partition, but is really not recommended.

The size of the swap partition will typically be double the size of the amount of RAM in your machine. So unless you run very spesific programs like high load database server, and you have 256MB RAM on your box, you make a 500-600MB swap partition.

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Karsten Breivik_1
Frequent Advisor

Re: linux reference

You may be interested in also making a separate mountpoint for /home so you can the data for all users even if you reinstall your system. For the first few installs I would not bother to do separate mountpoints for the other filesystems. In short, do / (root), /home and swap for a simple install.

Or if you are really interested, here is a document describing the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html

It is an interesting read even for seasoned admins. Especially note the /opt filesystem which is not installed by default on most linux systems, but is a very interesting alternative to /usr/local.

- k
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Ngoh Chean Siung
Super Advisor

Re: linux reference

Hi,

1) After linux installation completed, can I create/mount other file system like /tmp, /usr, /opt and etc if I only create / and swap space during the installation?

2) Existing I hv a hard disk with 2 partitions. The 1st partition is for windows XP and 2nd partition is the free space (unpartioned) reserved for linux installation. I think the cylinder point for 2nd partition is start from 709 - 3000. According to the user guide, some older bios cannot detect the 1st 1024 cylider of the hard disk. For my case, do I need to leave the cylinder point from 709 - 1733 for file system /boot?

regards.

regards.
Karsten Breivik_1
Frequent Advisor

Re: linux reference

Yep, you can mount anything afterwards. Use tools like fdisk to create partitions, the mount command to mount the disk and edit the /etc/fstab file in order to automount new partitions at boot. Nice commands are

less /etc/fstab
man fstab
man fdisk
man mount

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Ngoh Chean Siung
Super Advisor

Re: linux reference

Hi,

In HP-UX, we can run command 'bdf' to check the file system utilization. How about in Linux?

regards.