Installation of Fedora core 5 for Newb

Matt_Hirst · 23 Sep 2010 at 14:47

I need to visit two remote sites of ours and install Fedora core 5, yes I know current version is 13 but core 5 is the install guarenteed to work with a particular bespoke piece of software, anyway the computers are fairly recent quad core intel and dual core dell one with ATI card the other with Nvidia.

All well and good so far apart from there is no internet connection so I won't be able to download the correct drivers at the install site only take them with me on DVD.

Questions are:
* What do I need to know before hand / what can I do to prepare the disk install prior to getting to each site?
* What do I need to take with me to cover myself for the install?

I need WINE, Open office and a few other apps.

Oh by the way I am a total Linux Newb and come March next year it will have to move to red hat Linux.

regards,

Matt

Matt_Hirst · 23 Sep 2010 at 15:10

I don't know why, but we have some other guys who have tried newer versions of fedora and the system just falls flat on its face - hence we are now trying to stick with it.

Matt

Matt_Hirst · 23 Sep 2010 at 20:41

The only way I will be able to see the errors is goto the remote site then come back, so I was trying to get armed with a possible core 5 that may/should work and then if all else fails try the core 13.

What do I need to do to get core 5 to look for drivers off of a dvd instead of the internet?

regards,

Matt

Matt_Hirst · 27 Sep 2010 at 10:25

I have installed Fedorra 13, I am typing this on the same machine, how do I know if all the drivers are installed correctly?

Am just in the process of downloading openoffice, am downloading an iso does fedorra include anything for burning the iso to disk? Also what do I need to do with regards installing open office?

The next task will be to try to install Fedorra 5, just not sure how to go about it as I need to be able have all the relevant drivers downloaded to disk and force the install to look at the disk rather than the internet. How do I install fedorra 5 in a virtual box?

regards,

Matt

Matt_Hirst · 27 Sep 2010 at 13:57

Thanks for the replies guys, am away from the computer at the moment so will try during this next week to get everything working.

By running FC5 in a virtual environment do I lose anything - I run virtual machines on my windows PC at work and that has problems with the 3d graphics side of things.

regards,

Matt

Matt_Hirst · 27 Sep 2010 at 16:44

Its a computer simulation program and basicly is a huge database, mysql, and uses openmap for displaying some of its output.

Openmap was one of the issues when I ran the product in a win2000 virtual machine, openmap worked fine in windows itself but suffered conflicts with other software installed on the machine hence the reason going to a virtual machine, so I assume I will have problems under fedora?

regards,

Matt

Matt_Hirst · 27 Sep 2010 at 17:51

I am a complete Newgb to this so appreciate any help I get.

Users are accessing the system on their own pc as it is a single user system.

regards,

Matt

Matt_Hirst · 28 Sep 2010 at 07:50

One other question, when trying to install Fedora 13 to a differnt hard drive it wouldn't do it stating it contained raid metadata.

I understand I can clean this meta data using dmraid - e also there is mdadm, question is how do I run these commands? Which is th ebest to use?

regards,

Matt

Matt_Hirst · 30 Sep 2010 at 13:23

Quick question, how can I tell if an app is installed or not?

I had a go at installing mysql-client, mysql-server and mysql-devel it looked like it was installing, it asked for SU password, proceeded to appear to be doing something but at the moment I can't tell if it has loaded anything or not.

Also an application I need to test the install of is a bin file what do I do with this to get it installed? Its also on the dvd drive so how do I install from there?

regards,

Matt

Matt_Hirst · 30 Sep 2010 at 14:23

Right got the app installed but I need to modify a file in the etc directory how can I do this?

I can find the file if I go through computer and navigate down, but as soon as I edit the file it becomes read only.

How can I either navigate to the file from command prompt or edit the file and save it?

Also have tried to run the software but receive a message that it "ERROR - Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)". Although I can't tell if MYSQl is loaded when I try to use yum to reinstall it I get the message nothing to do.

regards,

Matt

Matt_Hirst · 30 Sep 2010 at 17:33

Whilst waiting for responses I have fitted a separate hard drive and installed fedora 5, all sort of seems ok, but I don't think it has any of the drivers for the majority of the hardware.

I get the message that smartd failed and the bluetooth part failed.

I also rebooted the machine and ended up at a GRUB prompt which is a boot loader so how do I tell it to boot to the desktop installed?

regards,

Matt

Matt_Hirst · 1 Oct 2010 at 11:38

Anyone help with this?

regards,

Matt

Matt_Hirst · 21 Oct 2010 at 10:35

Right I have just been told using a Virtual Machine is an option - Virtual Box. Does anybody use this? How easy is it to use? What are the licencing implications for using this?

regards,

Matt