This is amusing... I went to install Fedora Core 9 on on Celeron D CPU that I have... and couldn't because of load shedding. The thing was that it took so long for Fedora to install, that by the time the thing was nearing completion, I used to lose electricity. And I hadn't put the machine on my n-hour UPS.
One weird condition arose when Fedora DID install successfully, and on the first boot, I lost power and the machine shut down. When the power came up, the file system got mounted read-only for some reason and then the firstboot service couldn't write to disk. I tried doing an fsck, but that didn't do any wonders. The weird part is that I couldn't access the console tty's from the firstboot screen by doing a Ctrl-Alt-F1 etc. I had to murder the X screen by Ctrl-Alt-Bksp and that gave me prefdm errors by the ton. I could then access the console tty's. Weird.
Anyhow, I reinstalled the system again, and now its running good.
So who's to blame... Fedora for taking long to install, or MSEB, for keeping power on for short durations? I think we will all agree to blame MSEB. :-)
Friday, October 17, 2008
Monday, October 6, 2008
Fedora Core 9 - done!
Done with installing Fedora Core 9 on my AMD Sempron machines. It was not as easy as 1-2-3, but much easier than LTSP.
I had a few issues that I faced, like installing the flash plugin, for non-root users, and Firefox working in offline mode every time it started up.
This site, gave an explanation of setting up symlinks to the Flash plugin in the users .mozilla/plugins/ directory. Why isn't this documented on any of Adobe's help or installation README's? Simple and effective.
For the offline mode solution, just uninstall network-manager. :-). yum erase network-manager.
Problem solved.
Next, there is this awfully dumb thing that Fedora has - system level menus for non-root users. Why would anyone want that? I don't even want to imagine what can happen. So, I saw this site and made changes to the menu. I agree that its dumb to find out how to make changes, but I couldn't figure it out. I know. I am dumb.
I have also compiled a list of software that I have installed on the machine. I just did a yum list installed > installed.txt and added software that I added apart from yum to this file. What I am going to do now is just make another file which will have all the educational packages installed in it. This can be a guideline for schools in India which want to adopt open source.
I had a few issues that I faced, like installing the flash plugin, for non-root users, and Firefox working in offline mode every time it started up.
This site, gave an explanation of setting up symlinks to the Flash plugin in the users .mozilla/plugins/ directory. Why isn't this documented on any of Adobe's help or installation README's? Simple and effective.
For the offline mode solution, just uninstall network-manager. :-). yum erase network-manager.
Problem solved.
Next, there is this awfully dumb thing that Fedora has - system level menus for non-root users. Why would anyone want that? I don't even want to imagine what can happen. So, I saw this site and made changes to the menu. I agree that its dumb to find out how to make changes, but I couldn't figure it out. I know. I am dumb.
I have also compiled a list of software that I have installed on the machine. I just did a yum list installed > installed.txt and added software that I added apart from yum to this file. What I am going to do now is just make another file which will have all the educational packages installed in it. This can be a guideline for schools in India which want to adopt open source.
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