Fedora Core 4 Installation Notes

by Stanton Finley, revised January 4th, 2006

It is no longer necessary to become an expert practitioner of the arcane dark arts of the Unix command line in order to get a complete Linux distribution working on your PC including all of the productivity, multimedia, and entertainment applications you will need on your desktop and a fully functional web server as well.

This web page began as some notes to myself as I installed Fedora Core and has evolved into a popular guide for the new Linux user. Enjoy.

Stan Finley


 

These instructions assume an i386 to i686 system (32 bit) with, an "always on" LAN or broadband connection configured "DHCP" and at least 10 GB of free disk space for the Fedora partition. Instructions for dual booting Windows and Fedora are included.

For x86_64 processors (64-bit AMD64, EM64T) you should probably get FC4-x86_64-disc1.iso, FC4-x86_64-disc2.iso, FC4-x86_64-disc3.iso, and FC4-x86_64-disc4.iso. These instructions will not strictly apply for 64 bit computers using the 64 bit isos. 64 bit capable processors like Athlon 64, Opteron and Xeon are supposed to be backwardly compatible with 32 bit instruction sets and are known to run 32 bit editions of Linux. Therefore the i386 isos may work with these. I understand that Fedora Core for 64 bit processors still has some unresolved issues. Your mileage may vary.

Contents:

Installation
Configuring your monitor
A warning about mixing repositories
Yum
Apt and Synaptic
Firefox and Thunderbird
nVidia and ATI graphics acceleration
True Type fonts
Fedora Extras
Yum Extender
Java
Flash
RealPlayer
Rhythmbox
Adobe Reader
Xine - a DVD and multimedia player
Totem-xine - the Totem front end for Xine
MPlayer - another multimedia player
XMMS - a music and MP3 player
Beep - another media player
VLC - the Videolan stand-alone media player
Amarok - a KDE multimedia player
NTFS support
Bittorrent and bittorrent-gui
Azureus for bittorrent
LimeWire - a Java P2P application
Web Server
FTP Server
PHP and Perl
MySQL
phpMyAdmin
Resources
 

Installation:

Configuring your monitor:

Special warning regarding mixing incompatible repositories for up2date, yum, and apt:

Yum:

Apt and Synaptic:

Firefox and Thunderbird:

nVidia and ATI graphics acceleration:

True Type fonts:

Fedora Extras:

Yum Extender:

Java:

Flash:

RealPlayer:

Rhythmbox:

Adobe Reader:

Xine - a DVD and multimedia player:

Totem-xine - the Totem front end for Xine:

MPlayer - another multimedia player:

XMMS - a music and MP3 player:

Beep - another media player:

VLC - the Videolan stand-alone media player:

Amarok - a KDE multimedia player:

NTFS support (for mounting your Windows partition):

Bittorrent and bittorrent-gui:

Azureus for bittorrent:

LimeWire:

Web Server:

FTP Server:

PHP and Perl:

MySQL:

phpMyAdmin:

Resources:



Copyright © 2005 Stanton Max Finley. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.