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General History Terminal Installation Getting started Fedora-14-i386 ROSA.FRESH.LXQT
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Updated 2024-10-09
Installing Fedora-14-i386

BIOS settings

Fedora-14-i386

System was installed. Writing now in the terminal:

su
Password:
fdisk /dev/sda

n
p
Enter
Enter
+20G
Enter
p

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sda: 100.0 GB, 100030242816 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12161 cylinders, total 195371568 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x92121ea4

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *        2048    40962047    20480000   83  Linux
/dev/sda2        40962048    43010047     1024000   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3        43010048    84953087    20971520   83  Linux

Just created the 3rd partition on the hard drive, /dev/sda3, which is only for the next system. Now the 4th, which will be used by both systems:

n
p
Enter
Enter
p
w

reboot

mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sda4

blkid

/dev/sda1: UUID="fc77fff9-9642-48b1-9ca3-df34675e9032" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda2: UUID="a40d4259-577b-41be-9644-03f53c7a8926" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sda4: UUID="1caeb78f-38b4-482f-b050-770ab495f516" TYPE="ext4"

Adding the 4th partition to /etc/fstab:

man fstab
q
vi /etc/fstab

UUID=1caeb78f-38b4-482f-b050-770ab495f516  /media/sda4  ext4  defaults 1 2

cd /media
mkdir sda4
reboot
cd /media/sda4
mkdir x
chown x x
chgrp x x
exit
ls -al

total 28
drwxr-xr-x. 4 root root 4096 Dec 19 11:25 .
drwxr-xr-x. 4 root root 4096 Dec 19 11:21 ..
drwx----. 2 root root 16384 Dec 19 11:10 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x. 2 x x 4096 Dec 19 11:25 x

cd /media/sda4/x
mkdir Dist
cd Dist
mkdir F14
cd F14
dd if=/dev/sr0 of=F14DVD.iso

Copied the image from the installation DVD to the hard drive, with dd, then deleted directories Public and Templates from /home/x/, and some applications:

rpm -e PackageKit-yum-plugin-0.6.9-4.fc14.i686 PackageKit-0.6.9-4.fc14.i686 PackageKit-command-not-found-0.6.9-4.fc14.i686 PackageKit-yum-0.6.9-4.fc14.i686 PackageKit-glib-0.6.9-4.fc14.i686 PackageKit-device-rebind-0.6.9-4.fc14.i686 PackageKit-gtk-module-0.6.9-4.fc14.i686 gnome-packagekit-2.32.0-2.fc14.i686

rpm -e pulseaudio-module-x11-0.9.21-6.fc13.i686 pulseaudio-0.9.21-6.fc13.i686 pulseaudio-module-gconf-0.9.21-6.fc13.i686 pulseaudio-utils-0.9.21-6.fc13.i686 pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-0.9.21-6.fc13.i686 gnome-bluetooth-2.32.0-1.fc14.i686 bluez-4.71-5.fc14.i686

rpm -e gnote-0.7.2-2.fc14.i686

System » Administration » Services, disable everything except for: NetworkManager, acpid, cpuspeed, ip6tables, iptables, messagebus

From /boot/grub/grub.conf deleted rhgb and splashimage=(...).

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