Installing Fedora Core 2

First of all

This Section lists the various special Procedures of older Versions.

Booting the Installer

The System will boot quickly to the first (dark) Setup-Screen. The aha7*** Drivers need some time to load, just wait.

VIA C3 - FC2 Special

Fedora Core 2 only!
The Installer will boot the wrong Kernel by Default but RedHat has a workaround for that Problem.
You can go to Bugzilla id=12685 #169 and look vor youself, or follow the Procedure that has been extracted:

Additional Comment #169 From Gerald Bastelica on 2004-06-03 03:51 ------- Hi ! I also had problems to find how to mount cdrom. To be able to mount it, i had to chroot FIRST. So i think that you should do that: Download http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/c3boot-2.iso burn it on to a CD as a CD image boot off it at the first menu (Choose a Language) swap in the normal FC2 CD1 and install FC2 on install completion, where it says to remove the CD and it will reboot, type ctrl-alt-F2 to get to a console chroot /mnt/sysimage stick back in the CD you booted from mount /dev/hdc /mnt -t iso9660 (replace hdc with your cdrom device if different; scd0 for SCSI and USB Cd-Drives !) rpm -Uvf /mnt/source/kernel* umount /mnt type ctrl-alt-F1 (for text mode install) or crtl-alt-F7 (graphical install) and complete the install You should reboot into a working kernel Regards, Gerald

First Reboot

Customizing the Installation

SCSI System -> smard will fail because it cant find a "smart"-Drive.

Up2Date

Go to /etc/sysconfig/rhn and edit the File sources.
Insert new lines for the Repository closest to your location(s). The lines will have this syntax:
yum name-of-source http://Server.Domain/Fedora/Path/Version/$ARCH/os
and this might look like (pleas note that the following line will only work from the Vienna University of Technology Campus Network)
yum fedora-core-3_@_gd2 http://gd2.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/fedora/core/3/$ARCH/os
yum updates-released-fc3_@_gd2 http://gd2.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/fedora/core/updates/3/$ARCH

If there should be a / at the end of the line can be found by try and error.
You may want to disable the original Lines by inserting a # at the Beginning of the Line.

Desktops and ...

KDE

If KDE and Gnome is installed, Gnome will be the Default. You can change this Behavior by editing the File
/etc/sysconfig/desktop
as root. For an all KDE System this should look like
DESKTOP="KDE"
DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE"


Until further notice (01-Jun-2004)
The Slide Show Screen Saver does not work on a fresh install or new Users. It searches for it's Config File
$HOME/.kde/share/config/kslideshow.kssrc
If it isn't provided, the Process will consume about a Minute of CPU Time and exit without doing anything else. The Config can either be copied from an existing, old User Account or downloaded here.