Tuesday, February 28, 2006, 01:33 - Desktop
On Saturday, 21 January 2006 I am downloading Fedora Core 4 binary DVD ISO using bittorrent. The download took about 10 hours and after the download complete extract all files into 1 folder and edit apache configuration to have virtual folder pointed to folder hold Fedora Core 4 files and restart it.
Afterthat I copy file boot.iso which is located on images folder then burn it to my cdrw so I can do a network install FC4 to my PC. After burning boot.iso completed, restart PC and make sure on the BIOS that first boot up is using CDROM. I am installing via http server http://10.10.105.105/software/fedora on my network there is a DHCP server running so I do not need to key in my IP address. BTW this is my HDDs configuration:
- Seagate 40GB HDD on Primary Slave (Windows XP reside)
- LiteON DVD-CDRW on Secondary Master
- Quantum 20GB HDD on Secondary Slave (I am going to install FC4 here)
The Installation is succesfull. I am just installed the default software in Personal configuration. and for the boot loader (grub) installed on the first boot sector of harddisk /dev/hdd
I am intended to install a free boot loader (not like bootmagic which is paid version) on my windows drive but till then I have to manually change boot order from my BIOS which OS I want to use.
Actually FC4 detects my Windows and create a device.map and grub.conf so I can choose Windows XP from GRUB boot loader but it seem didn''t work. I finally fix it by changing these files:
vi /boot/grub/device.map
(fd0) /dev/fd0
(hd0) /dev/hdd
(hd1) /dev/hdb
#was
#(hd0) /dev/hdb
#(hd1) /dev/hdd
vi /boot/grub/grub.conf
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
#was splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core (2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp)
root (hd1,0)
#was root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp.img
title Fedora Core-up (2.6.11-1.1369_FC4)
root (hd1,0)
#was root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.img
title Windows XP Pro
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader +1
after changing the harddisk device map I can boot off to FC4 flawlessly and all my hardware detected correctly like (vga, nic, soundcard, key and mouse)
Now I am ready to use Fedora Core 4
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