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May 22, 2005

Fedora Core - The Fun Begins

22 May 2005

SEATTLE - Things were kinda slow around here on Saturday morning so I decided to inflict some well-deserved pain upon myself by attempting a new Linux install. I had an old mini-tower case that used to run RedHat 7.2 before the primary drive crashed. Between it, and my wife's old desktop box I figured I had plenty of (low-powered) hardware to keep me busy for a few hours.

The Box, Power Supply & Drives

The mini-tower is actually from our first PC, purchased in 1995. Because I'm loading it up with drives (more on this later) I swapped it's 200 watt power supply with a 250 watt (I know...but it's better than the 200 watt) from the desktop case. The only modification necessary was to extend the cable connected to the switch.

I found two 3GB drives and a single 13GB drive, all of them Western Digital. These were configured as follows:

IDE SlotMasterSlave
IDE03.2GB Caviar 3320013.6GB Sparta
IDE116x CDROM3.2GB Caviar 33100

Which Distro? Configuration

While building up the box in the garage, I was downloading RedHat Fedora Core 4 (Test 3). Why Fedora? Good question. Probably the deciding factor was my familiarity with "things RedHat" from the old mini-tower. I had been all over that system over the years and am quite comfortable (relatively speaking, of course) with it.

The partition scheme I choose looks like this:

PartitionNameSize (MB)
/dev/hda1/boot98
/dev/hda2/ (root)2996
/dev/hdb2/usr6000
/dev/hda3/var996
/dev/hda5swap509
/dev/hda6/home5150
/dev/hdd1/tmp511
/dev/hdd2/share2504

The configuration (Which is still being installed...a day later. So much for a "few hours") is starting with the workstation settings, with some extra stuff added, including:


  • Web Server
  • FTP Server
  • MySQL

And whatever else looked interesting...

Posted by caropepe at May 22, 2005 05:41 PM

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