ozgeek Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 Fedora Core 6 is on the mirrors. I'm downloading from Nluug at a reasonable speed. ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/fedora/6Happy Downloading Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
striker Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 Got it in ,checked sha1 and burned successfully on DVD at 15.30 local time. :w00t:TIP: Read the Release Notes please , they're on the DVD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 Wooow . . . . I will download this puppy tomorrow, will have to upgrade my 5 to 6 . . . . Let me know how the install was Striker ! main distros :Fedora Core 4-5-6 LOL ! Bruno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozgeek Posted October 24, 2006 Author Share Posted October 24, 2006 TIP: Read the Release Notes please , they're on the DVD. Thanks for the headsup, Striker. I will certainly have a read of these.I have nearly four hours to go on my download. Am really looking forward to installing this Fedora. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drifter Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 I want to try this.....but which iso file I need to download...FC-6-ppc-DVD.iso or FC-6-i386-DVD.iso....Untill now I have tried only Mandriva and Pclos live CD.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
striker Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 The install was easy as pie but took one and a half hours... yes. Reason : I opted for a series of packages to install from the extra repository. I thought I can get them later through nluug but I also wanted to test this new option for the forums to see how it goes. It worked quite well but took a long period of time. Without the Extra install option the install would have take appr. 30-45 minutes. Please note : if you're on dial-up do NOT select this option. Also select this only if you're behind a router. I selected the KDE completely incl.koffice and OO, but also gnome and a couple of gnome applications I frequent to use and all development + MultiMedia appl. which were offered. So the less you select for installing the shorter it takes. BTW : I used the i386 DVD.I'm half way through my adjustings and modifications for the base system now, the other half I'll plan to do tomorrow, it's getting late here now and I need some rest.NOTES:1] At the first screen of the installer - instead of just hitting the Enter button - I typed: linux resolution=1280x1024 .That was all I needed to do for Fedora 6 to set up my DVI connected display OK with "nv" (!) in xorg.conf.(so not Vesa)2] the installer was able to set up xorg.conf automatically OK; After the usual reboot I got a nice display 1280x1024 through DVI ... the first distro that I met which was able to do so without my intervention. Kudos Fedora ! 3] Even the refresh rate was perfectly adjusted to 60Hz. (remember: I use a Samsung LCD 17" through DVI)All in all until now not bad. One negative thing : k3b is a slightly older version, 0.12.15 .I believe the actual one is 0.12.17. OK, you can't get it all, until now I'm satisfied.Fonts : the new DejaVu fonts are the default now. I haven't experimented much with them but from what I saw in this first short "meeting" they're not as bad as others I have seen on linux. (Hey, I'm a nitpicker when it comes to fonts, my fault... )In the Firefox browser ( Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20061011 Fedora/1.5.0.7-7.fc6 Firefox/1.5.0.7 ) Beagle Indexing is active by default : I will have to hunt down the setting to disable this. Also PANGO is enabled. If you have problems on some sites, see the release notes to do something about this. (easy as pie ... but you have to look for it your self in the release notes, yes go on and read them.)Smashed in all my extensions in the fox and it all works. Even my beloved Sylpheed mail client was there. To end this little review : I hear some fans in the case getting louder and louder, something must be active in the background or the CPUfreq application is not doing its work, or maybe something else. So first thing to do tomorrow is getting me gkrellm set up with all the bells and whistles to spy on the innerds of the distro/machine combo. For now I'm off : Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 As tantalizing as FC6 sounds from striker's install, I think I will wait to see how it goes on various types of hardware before I get on the bandwagon.For those who are still on dialup, there are ways of getting the install disk(s) through places like CheapBytes.com etc. If I don't want to wait till next summer to get it, I will likely have to go that route.Sounds like it's gonna be a great upgrade! :thumbsup:Striker, it sounds like you did a clean install? Did you save your /home to use in this installation or just use a clean install? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ross549 Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 I am contemplating trying to grab this via bittorrent... would probably take a couple weeks..... I would like to try for the sake of trying. I would like to try out Fedora sometime too. ;)Adam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
striker Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 As tantalizing as FC6 sounds from striker's install, I think I will wait to see how it goes on various types of hardware before I get on the bandwagon.For those who are still on dialup, there are ways of getting the install disk(s) through places like CheapBytes.com etc. If I don't want to wait till next summer to get it, I will likely have to go that route.Sounds like it's gonna be a great upgrade! :thumbsup:Striker, it sounds like you did a clean install? Did you save your /home to use in this installation or just use a clean install?I always do a clean install with a separate /home directory. I have 18 distros on this machine (if I counted correctly ) with this kind of set up. When something goes wrong, i.e. the distro doesn't suit me at all, I just fall back to my main one. When there comes another one which I think I would like, I take my killdisk and zero out the / and /home directory of the distro which didn't suit my needs, I then install the new one on those partitions. At the moment I have one couple of partitions left to put a distro on, after that it's gonna be an extra hard disk drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
striker Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 To end this little review : I hear some fans in the case getting louder and louder, something must be active in the background or the CPUfreq application is not doing its work, or maybe something else. So first thing to do tomorrow is getting me gkrellm set up with all the bells and whistles to spy on the innerds of the distro/machine combo. No problem, just indexing.In the Firefox browser ( Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20061011 Fedora/1.5.0.7-7.fc6 Firefox/1.5.0.7 ) Beagle Indexing is active by default : I will have to hunt down the setting to disable this. Also PANGO is enabled. If you have problems on some sites, see the release notes to do something about this. (easy as pie ... but you have to look for it your self in the release notes, yes go on and read them.)Easy, just click on the dogs head icon in the right lower hand corner to disable: it acts as a toggle switch.So clicking it again will re-enable it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 No problem, just indexing.Yep Beagle . . . I tested it on my MDV . . and removed it after a few days it because the indexing was driving me crazy. . . . I will uninstall it on my Fedora as well.Usually it runs with very low priority in the background, but every time the screensaver/display power management kicks in it goes to 99% CPU. . . . I was unable to find a file to adjust the "--nice" settingB) Bruno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
striker Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 Yep, I gave it the "kick" too. (For the Firefox users: make sure Firefox is closed tho, otherwise it hangs until eternity ! ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peachy Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 I like it so far, despite it crashing during a VMware guest install. I put it on a Pentium M-era Centrino notebook (HP Compaq Evo n1000c). Installed in about 15 minutes. Compviz is installed by default (just enable the 3D effects) and so I had a very smooth spinning cube, wobbly windows, etc. Much faster than SUSE 10.1 and this is on an Intel i830 graphics chipset! Now the real test will be to see how well the glibc libraries hold up to ./configure && make && make install Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
striker Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 I like it so far, despite it crashing during a VMware guest install. I put it on a Pentium M-era Centrino notebook (HP Compaq Evo n1000c). Installed in about 15 minutes. Compviz is installed by default (just enable the 3D effects) and so I had a very smooth spinning cube, wobbly windows, etc. Much faster than SUSE 10.1 and this is on an Intel i830 graphics chipset! Now the real test will be to see how well the glibc libraries hold up to ./configure && make && make install yep, indeed . That would show us what one can actually do with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steel Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 errrr Monsieur Striker, would you mind posting your lilo enteries, and while your at it startcom, centos and Arch too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
striker Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 Will do, just have to restart into Mandriva 2006. # File generated by DrakX/drakboot# WARNING: do not forget to run lilo after modifying this filedefault="mandriva2006"boot=/dev/hdamap=/boot/mapkeytable=/boot/us.kltmenu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bwpromptnowarntimeout=100message=/boot/messageimage=/boot/vmlinuz label="mandriva2006" root=/dev/hde1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="resume=/dev/hde6 splash=silent" vga=788image=/boot/vmlinuz label="linux-nonfb" root=/dev/hde1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=" resume=/dev/hde6"image=/boot/vmlinuz label="failsafe" root=/dev/hde1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=" failsafe resume=/dev/hde6"other=/dev/hda1 label="windows" table=/dev/hdaimage=/boot/mandy2007/vmlinuz-2.6.17-5mdv label="mandriva2007" root=/dev/hdf31 initrd=/boot/mandy2007/initrd-2.6.17-5mdv.img append="resume=/dev/hdf12 splash=silent" vga=794image=/boot/centos/vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.0.3.EL label="CentOS-4.4" root=/dev/hdf1 initrd=/boot/centos/initrd-2.6.9-42.0.3.EL.img append="resume=/dev/hdf12 splash=verbose" read-only vga=normalimage=/boot/dreamlinux/vmlinuz-2.6.14-kanotix-9 label="dreamlinux-xfce-2.1-works" initrd=/boot/dreamlinux/initrd append="ro root=/dev/hdf27" vga=normalimage=/boot/fedora4/vmlinuz-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4 label="fedora-c4" initrd=/boot/fedora4/initrd-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.img append="ro root=/dev/hdf17 rhgb quiet" vga=normalimage=/boot/fedora/vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5 label="fedora-c5" initrd=/boot/fedora/initrd-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5.img append="ro root=/dev/hdf6 rhgb quiet" vga=normalimage=/boot/fedora6/vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 label="fedora-c6" initrd=/boot/fedora6/initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.img append="ro root=/dev/hdf33 rhgb quiet" vga=normalimage=/boot/fox/vmlinuz-2.6.16-1.2096_FC4 label="fox-dt-1-Pro" root=/dev/hde7 initrd=/boot/fox/initrd-2.6.16-1.2096_FC4.img append="resume=/dev/hde6 splash=verbose" read-only vga=normalimage=/boot/kanotix/vmlinuz-2.6.16.16-kanotix-1 label="kanotix" initrd=/boot/kanotix/initrd.img-2.6.16.16-kanotix-1 append="ro root=/dev/hdf19" vga=normalimage=/boot/pclos/vmlinuz-2.6.12-oci6.mdk-i586-up-1GB label="pclos-P92" root=/dev/hde9 initrd=/boot/pclos/initrd-2.6.12-oci6.mdk-i586-up-1GB.img append="resume=/dev/hde6 splash=verbose" vga=normalimage=/boot/pclinuxos/vmlinuz-2.6.16.27.tex1.lve label="pclos-P93" root=/dev/hdf23 initrd=/boot/pclinuxos/initrd-2.6.16.27.tex1.lve.img append="resume=/dev/hdf12 splash=verbose" vga=normalimage=/boot/sam/vmlinuz-2.6.16.27.tex1.lve label="sam-2006.3" root=/dev/hdf29 initrd=/boot/sam/initrd-2.6.16.27.tex1.lve.img append="resume=/dev/hdf12 splash=verbose" vga=normalimage=/boot/simplymepis/vmlinuz-2.6.15-26-386 label="simplymepis-6" root=/dev/hdf8 initrd=/boot/simplymepis/initrd.img-2.6.15-26-386 append="resume=/dev/hdf12" vga=normalimage=/boot/slack11/vmlinuz-ide-2.4.33.3 label="slackware-11" append="ro root=/dev/hdf21" vga=normalimage=/boot/startcom/vmlinuz-2.6.16-1.ML5.2 label="startcom-ml505" initrd=/boot/startcom/initrd-2.6.16-1.ML5.2.img append="ro root=/dev/hdf10 rhgb quiet" vga=normalimage=/boot/suse93/vmlinuz-2.6.11.4-21.14-default label="Suse-9.3" root=/dev/hdf15 initrd=/boot/suse93/initrd-2.6.11.4-21.14-default append="resume=/dev/hdf12 splash=verbose" read-only vga=0x317image=/boot/suse100/vmlinuz-2.6.13-15.12-default label="Suse-10.0" root=/dev/hdf13 initrd=/boot/suse100/initrd-2.6.13-15.12-default append="resume=/dev/hdf12 splash=verbose" read-only vga=0x317image=/boot/zenwalk/vmlinuz-2.6.17.11 label="zenwalk-3.0" initrd=/boot/zenwalk/initrd.splash append="ro root=/dev/hdf25" vga=normal and while your at it startcom, centos and Arch tooYou want the menu.lst from startcom and centos? I don' t have Arch installed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steel Posted October 28, 2006 Share Posted October 28, 2006 (edited) Will do, just have to restart into Mandriva 2006.You want the menu.lst from startcom and centos? I don' t have Arch installed.Thank Striker, i asked you cos your the only one here that also has startcome and centos .... there both working fine its Arch thats messing up dunno why...... ilast thing i did was a huge update and it changed the kernel but not sure which kernel to use now lol here is what i mean ls /mnt/arch/bootdiag1.img initrd26.img kernel26.img vmlinuz26grub/ kconfig26 mkinitcpio-kernel26.confinitrd26-full.img kernel26-fallback.img System.map26 $ ls -l /boot/archdiag1.img grub/ initrd26-full.imgnitrd26.img kconfig26 kernel26-fallback.imgkernel26.imgmkinitcpio-kernel26.confSystem.map26vmlinuz26menu.lst from archmenu.lst from arch # (0) Arch Linuxtitle Arch Linux [/boot/vmlinuz]root (hd0,0)kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/hda3 roinitrd /initrd26.imgpclos93 liloimage=/boot/arch/vmlinuz26 label=Arch root=/dev/hda11 initrd=/boot/arch/initrd26.img read-onlyeven that sets it off as a kernel panic... and its too bad cos Arch is a sweet dristo i really like and did alot of configuring in it ... Also i did manage to install Fedora 6 Finally but errrrrrrr i couldnt do it the normal way through gui, i had to use linux text which is even better for me i perfer cli to gui ... now i dont have to visit neighbor to use fedora Edited October 28, 2006 by steel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
striker Posted October 28, 2006 Share Posted October 28, 2006 Steel, I'm not familiar with Arch but from what I gathered from their forums is that they're making a mess of all those different kernels. That's no good. But I saw other ones on there having about the same problem as you have with Arch. For. ex. this thread :http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=26240The pclos93 lilo above with regard to the menu.lst from arch is correct imo, so I think the problem lies with the Arch specific mkinitcpio. Also i did manage to install Fedora 6 Finally but errrrrrrr i couldnt do it the normal way through gui, i had to use linux text which is even better for me i perfer cli to gui ... now i dont have to visit neighbor to use fedora wink.gifThat's really nice and good to see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steel Posted October 28, 2006 Share Posted October 28, 2006 Thanks for the link Striker and postng your lilo i will save it in my backup it makes excellent reference for me.. As far as Arch yeah and its kernel i hav no idea at this point, if it would possible to compile a new kernel in a different partition i could do that but the thing doesnt even boot it gives me ..... kernel panic -not syncing:vfs:unable to mount root fs on unknown blah blah its a shame cos i really like Arch and i spend tons of time configuring it to my liking guess thats the price when you pay for having your distro in bleeding edge, i dont mind with sid its easy to fix whatever goes wrong but arch and pacman is new to me .... so i am lost Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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