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(You need a full gcc software development environment and kernel headers for this to work) | (You need a full gcc software development environment and kernel headers for this to work) | ||
| − | + | * Download VMware from | |
http://www.vmware.com/download/server/ | http://www.vmware.com/download/server/ | ||
| − | + | * Do not forget to register to obtain a (free) license key: | |
http://register.vmware.com/content/registration.html | http://register.vmware.com/content/registration.html | ||
| − | + | * Install (I used the rpm) | |
<bash> | <bash> | ||
sudo rpm -Uhv VMware-server-1.0.4-56528.i386.rpm | sudo rpm -Uhv VMware-server-1.0.4-56528.i386.rpm | ||
sudo rpm -Uhv VMware-server-console-1.0.4-56528.i386.rpm | sudo rpm -Uhv VMware-server-console-1.0.4-56528.i386.rpm | ||
</bash> | </bash> | ||
| − | + | * The standard setup-script fails to compile the kernel module, so you need to use the following (unsupported) patch: | |
<bash> | <bash> | ||
wget http://knihovny.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/vmware-any-any-update115.tar.gz | wget http://knihovny.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/vmware-any-any-update115.tar.gz | ||
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</bash> | </bash> | ||
The rest is the standard procedure for a VMware installation. | The rest is the standard procedure for a VMware installation. | ||
| − | + | * And voila, it works. | |
= Conclusions = | = Conclusions = | ||
Fedora 8 is a nice and stable system, which installs without problems (almost boring ;-) ). The new design (icons, wallpaper, colour scheme) is also quite nice (except for the window borders I'd say). Great work, Red Hat! | Fedora 8 is a nice and stable system, which installs without problems (almost boring ;-) ). The new design (icons, wallpaper, colour scheme) is also quite nice (except for the window borders I'd say). Great work, Red Hat! | ||
Revision as of 16:10, 16 December 2007
Installation notes for Fedora 8 on my AMD Athlon64 3200+.
The most recent version of Fedora looked to good to stay with the old one.
Contents
Download
Via one of the ftp mirrors. Burn to DVD, done.
Basic install
As with my previous installation, I did not do an update but a complete reinstall. I just scraped the old FC6 installation, keeping the home-directories and manually installed software.
There are tons of installation instructions out there, so I will only list the stuff, which did not work out of the box.
Tweaking
Network
Currently, my box runs with a direct connection to a PPPoE-modem, a fact, that was not recognized by the installer (altough I guess it is not that uncommon). Installation had to be finished without online-connection therefore.
PPPoE could be configured on the commandline with
pppoe-setup
nVidia driver
Via livna as described on http://www.mjmwired.net. I had to add the noapic option to make it run (as per the nVidia manual) to /etc/grub.conf.
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-49.fc8 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet noapic
nVidia driver for the nVidia GeForce 8800GT
Recently I bought a new rig, which got the (at the time of writing) brand-new nVidia GeForce 8800GT graphics board. nVidia states on their website, that this chip is supported under Linux by their newest graphics driver. Unfortunately, the livna.org package of that driver does not recognize the chip and fails to start the X-server.
To install a working graphics driver for the nVidia GeForce 8800GT you neet to enable livna-testing:
<bash> cd /etc/yum.repos.d vi livna-testing.repo </bash>
edit the line <bash> enabled=0 </bash>
to
<bash> enabled=1 </bash>
after that, install the testing nVidia driver from livna as usual, and everything should work.
CD-RW/DVD+-RW
FC3 and FC6 had issues with my Plextor-PX712A, which are really solved with the new version -finally!
@todo More to come
VMware server
If you don't want to fumble around with Xen, VMware Server is a free (but not Open Source) alternative to run a virtualized OS (let's say that thing from Redmond).
Unfortunately, VMware does not support the current kernel version, so here is what I did:
(You need a full gcc software development environment and kernel headers for this to work)
- Download VMware from
http://www.vmware.com/download/server/
- Do not forget to register to obtain a (free) license key:
http://register.vmware.com/content/registration.html
- Install (I used the rpm)
<bash> sudo rpm -Uhv VMware-server-1.0.4-56528.i386.rpm sudo rpm -Uhv VMware-server-console-1.0.4-56528.i386.rpm </bash>
- The standard setup-script fails to compile the kernel module, so you need to use the following (unsupported) patch:
<bash> wget http://knihovny.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/vmware-any-any-update115.tar.gz tar xvzf vmware-any-any-update115.tar.gz cd vmware-any-any-update115 ./runme.pl </bash> The rest is the standard procedure for a VMware installation.
- And voila, it works.
Conclusions
Fedora 8 is a nice and stable system, which installs without problems (almost boring ;-) ). The new design (icons, wallpaper, colour scheme) is also quite nice (except for the window borders I'd say). Great work, Red Hat!
