Installation of Fedora Core2. Currently using WinXP & fedora F0.94 beta. Date: 2004/06 0. Left unchanged from previous installation: Ethernet still did not work. IRQ 0 was being assigned to some devices. Set bios to assume non-PNP OS to get IRQ assigned. BIOS -> BOOT -> Plug&Play OS -> NO 1. General Info /dev/hda1 - WinXP 10 GB /dev/hda5 - swap 1 GB /dev/hda6 - / 10 GB - Fedora F0.94 (ext3) /dev/hda7 - /r1 10 GB - Fedora Core2 (ext3) /dev/hda8 - /aux ~50 GB - Rest of disk. (ext3) 2. Installation Booting with smp kernel causes hangs....Don't use smp kernel. 3. general admin setup/fixed: /etc/passwd - make accounts: to, tcs3 /etc/resolv.conf - fix. Add domain /etc/ntp.conf - fix. Setup to slave of duke. (system-config-services) Use device name rather that labels -> /etc/fstab Enable NIS and limit tables to hosts, netgroups. system-config-authentication edit nsswitch.conf add duke to /etc/hosts Enable nfs. (system-config-services) Set up autofs /etc/auto.master /etc/automap for /htdocs, /irtf.backup /etc/auto.home for user accounts. Enable XDMCP. (system settings->login screen->XDMCP) 4. Apply all updates: For Fedora Core 2 updates use the redhat up2date service. However, Install apt & synaptic (just in case). 5. Install XFCE desktop: Follow the steps in the file XFCE-setup.html to install XFCE. Used apt-get to install packages, there are commands to insure you have all necessary packages: # apt-get install libxfce4mcs libxfcegui4 libxfce4util xfce-mcs-manager \ xfce-mcs-plugins xfce-mcs-manager-devel xfce-utils \ xfce4-panel dbh xfdesktop xffm xffm-icons xfwm4 6. Compile and install kernel from source. Note: Compile and install kernel is needed inorder to compile/use source modules. Install rpm for kernel sources. create /usr/src/linux-2.6-> link to desired sources. compiles and install: # cd /usr/src/linux-2.6 # make clean # make mrproper # make oldconfig -> generate a .config file based on the running kernel # make bzImage # make modules # make modules_install # make install 7. Install TCS3 development libraries: Install /src/slalib /src/libesla libir1 (use latest source copy from Tony Denault). 8. Install nvidia drivers to allow duel monitor operations. See notes in 0407-nvidia/