Fedora Core 4 Installation Guide

ogo writes "The Fedora Documentation Project recently announced that the first Installation Guide for Fedora Core is available. It is specifically for Fedora Core 4, which will be released publicly on June 13, and x86 hardware."

A good sign

[treff89]

This is a good sign on behalf of both Fedora core, and the Linux community in general. Where previously installing and simple operaton were cited by anti-Linux users as negatives, now these attributes rank as extremely good advantages. If Linux in general keeps up the direction and momentum, there will continue to be less and less reasons that it is not as good as alternatives. Fedora: I salute you.

Re:A good sign

[kosmosik]

But such guides were aviable for any decent (I mean XXI century :P) versions of RHL/RHEL... Software is useless if you don't have manual describing such basic stuff like instalation...

Could have done with on Saturday

[Nighttime]

On Friday night I managed to find an FTP server where the admin hadn't secured the Fedora Core 4 directory. Grabbed the four ISOs and by Saturday afternoon, I was enjoying a fresh FC4 installation.

Re:Could have done with on Saturday

[jeremiah_baruch]

I just did a search on toreentspy and found the iso's there too. Will there be DVD iso's avialble for this release?

Re:Could have done with on Saturday

[Nighttime]

There was a DVD ISO for FC2 and FC3 if memory serves. I managed to find one unsecured FTP site that had a DVD ISO for FC4, but as I was only getting 10KB/s from that site and maxing out my bandwidth downloading the CD ISOs from another site, I went for the CDs.

Apple's started a trend!

[timdorr]

Fedora's switching to Intel too!

Re:Apple's started a trend!

[DS_hacker]

In other news, Bill Gates has announced that Windows Longhorn will only run on PPC-based systems.

Re:Apple's started a trend!

[hdparm]

Will it include Longhorn?

Re:Fedora Core 4

[afd8856]

New: 0day warez with open source :)

(yeah, I know and use tpb and etree, so don't bother explaining me about legal torrents)

Fedora not Red Hat

[Tharkban]

Way to go on the install guide, I might have used it years ago when I was lost and confused, not to mention afraid installing linux.

On another note, shouldn't news about Fedora have the Fedora logo next to it, instead of Red Hat? Subtle point, and I don't want to bash Red Hat, they're great, and will be supporting Fedora, but they're not the same thing anymore.

Re:Fedora not Red Hat

[Rudeboy777]

Not the same thing, but they are the same company. Should there be different logos for stories about Windows XP vs Server 2K3?

Looks not a whole lot different than FC3

[suitepotato]

and it really needs a DVD iso ASAP. Doing the CD shuffle is a colossal pain in the arse, especially if you do a custom install with less than everything. I usually do everything the first few times to test it and see what I can break or make work for production, but when it comes to a custom, a DVD is the only way to go.

Disk Druid was already fairly competent as a partition tool, even on multiboot systems so that wasn't hard on the last release.

Mysteriously, the sound system set itself to MUTE so if y

Re:Looks not a whole lot different than FC3

[Reverend528]

and it really needs a DVD iso ASAP. Doing the CD shuffle is a colossal pain in the arse, especially if you do a custom install with less than everything.

I prefer network-based installations for this very reason.

Re:Looks not a whole lot different than FC3

[ssimontis]

The only problem with Disk Druid, IMO, is that reiserfs is still not supported when creating a new partition. I keep a copy of Knoppix lying around for this very reason.

Re:Linux needs to fix package management

[superpulpsicle]

Well if you want to talk about best package management overall, nobody comes close to Aix.

Shouldn't even bother bragging Mac over linux. Cause Aix makes Mac look ordinary. You can even update patches in Aix going from 1 to 2, 2 to 3 etc.

Here's the Torrent

[Jsutton1027w]

http://www.torrentspy.com/download.asp?id=326159 [torrentspy.com]

I don't have any way of verifying that these are real, but I'm getting them right now.

Re:Here's the Torrent

[skinfitz]

Ha you pirate! I'm going to tell on you - NOBODY pirates Linux and gets away with it.

Oh wait.

Re:If you need an installation guide....

[whitehatsid]

Nightmare, I installed it onto my Toshiba M30, it work great! Although i am waiting for the source, as the kernal has NO support for NTFS. Nightmare for me, as i have a partition, with Xp and Fedora core.

Re:If you need an installation guide....

[HaydnH]

I use FC3 - if you need NTFS support just download a custom kernel [kernel.org] and tick the NTFS support option before compiling it... if you haven't installed a custom kernel before I suggest you read up on it first though - google will yield plenty of results.

Linux NTFS Sourceforge project...

[rklrkl]

Keep an eye on the RPMs that are part of the Linux NTFS [sourceforge.net] Sourceforge project - they're usually fairly fast at putting up RPMs for new kernel releases.

Re:If you need an installation guide....

[XO]

What moron modded me as a troll?