Tuesday, February 28, 2006, 01:53 - Desktop
Here's a good website that give you a tutorial on how to Install and configure FC 4 for Desktop usage
http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_4 ... notes.html
I'll follow the steps on that site and will put my own notes here.
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( 3 / 309 )Tuesday, February 28, 2006, 01:53 - Desktop
I think I have describe my PC hardware configuration before I am telling that linux just work fine on my PC. So here''s my PC Hardware configuration
Asus P4R800-Deluxe Motherboard
Intel Pentium IV 2.8Ghz HT
Vgen 512 MB DDR-RAM PC3200 x2
SATA Seagete 200 GB
IDE Lite-On DVD-CDRW on Secondary Master
below specs is it important ??
Compaq Keyboard
Logitech Scroll Mouse
Sun 17" Monitor
Simbadda Casing
and Altec Lansing 221 Speaker
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( 3.2 / 285 )Tuesday, February 28, 2006, 01:52 - Desktop
My harddisk partition configuration Seagate SATA 200GB (Detected 180GB)
Partition 1 = /dev/sda1 = Windows XP Pro (C:)= 40GB = NTFS
Partition 2 = /dev/sda2 = Fedora Core 4 (/) = 30GB = Ext3FS
Partition 3 = /dev/sda3 = Fedora Core 4 home folder (/home) = 20GB = Ext3FS
Partition 4 = /dev/sda4 = Extended Partition
Partition 5 = /dev/sda5 = Data Partition (/data)(D:) = 20GB = Ext3FS (for exchanging files between linux/winxp)
Partition 6 = /dev/sda6 = Fedora Core 4 Swap (swap) = 2GB = swap
Partition 7 = /dev/sda7 = My Documents (E:) = 40GB = NTFS
Partition 8 = /dev/sda8 = My Files (F:) = 28GB = NTFS
I am not mounting my NTFS partition on FC4. Not because FC4 didn't provide kernel that can read NTFS (altough I can install it) but I just wan't to separate "the world" of FC4 and WinXP
Below is detailed infomartion:
# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 5344 42925648+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 5345 9168 30716280 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 9169 11718 20482875 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 11719 24321 101233597+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 11719 14268 20482843+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda6 14269 14523 2048256 82 Linux swap / Solaris
# cat /etc/fstab
# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/sda5 /data vfat defaults 0 0
/dev/devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
/dev/shm /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sys /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
LABEL=SWAP-sda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrecorder auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
LABEL=/ is /dev/sda2
LABEL=/home is /dev/sda3
LABEL=SWAP-sda6 is /dev/sda6
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( 3 / 282 )Tuesday, February 28, 2006, 01:49 - Desktop
Gnome Nautilus is a default File Explorer used by FC4 when you are using GNOME as Desktop Environment but something that bugging me that every time I open up a folder, it will display a new nautilus window. I am able to change the setting by choosing option
Edit >> Preferences >> Behaviour and tick mark on menu Always open in browser windows
Done! now Nautilus didn''t open a new window everytime I open up a folder
Then I am a TUI lover hence my job is maintaining servers so I''ll be using Terminal often and I want terminal is available on Launcher. Here''s how:
Click "Applications" > "System Tools"
Right click on "Terminal" and select "Add this launcher to panel"
Done also
Now making Thunderbird as my Default Email client rather than Evolution
Click "Desktop" > "Preferences" > "More Preferences" > "Preferred Applications"
Choose "Mail Reader" Tab and Select Thunderbird Mail from the dropdown
Hit Close button
Now when you click Lauch mail from the Laucher, Thunderbird will be opened rather than Evolution.
*You can choose Thunderbird if you already install it before
:)
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( 3 / 252 )Tuesday, February 28, 2006, 01:48 - Desktop
apmd - I am not running on notebook
bluetooth - I don''t have a bluetooth devices
isdn - My network running on LAN 10/100 MB
mdmonitor - I am not installing my Fedora using RAID Harddisk
pcmcia - My Fedora in on PC not notebook
Click on "Desktop" > "System Settings" > "Server Settings" > "Services" and deselect system services that you will not immediately use. When you click on each of them you will see a description as to what they are for. If you''re not sure, leave them in there. (I deselected above services.) Click the "save" icon. You should also select "Edit Runlevel" on the menu, select "Runlevel 3", deselect the same system services as you just did for run level 5, and save them as well by clicking the "save" icon. Then close the service configuration screen. (Run level 3 is for text mode only without X windows and we will use this run level later when configuring the ATI driver.)
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