Fedora Core 6 Install Notes
This is mostly for my own reference.
Before I Install
Get current information from df and fdisk -l .
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Disk /dev/hda: 203.9 GB, 203928109056 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24792 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 6374 51199123+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2 6375 24792 147942585 c W95 FAT32 LBA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Disk /dev/hdb: 120.0 GB, 120060444672 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14596 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 * 1 25 200781 83 Linux /dev/hdb2 26 1247 9815715 83 Linux /dev/hdb3 1248 14347 105225748 83 Linux /dev/hdb4 14348 14596 2000092 82 Linux swap ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Filesystem 1M-blocks Mounted on ------------------------------------ /dev/hda1 NTFS partition /dev/hda2 144405 /d ------------------------------------ /dev/hdb1 190 /boot /dev/hdb2 9286 / /dev/hdb3 101147 /home /dev/hdb4 SWAP ------------------------------------
Tar up /etc to grab specific config files later.
sudo tar czf /home/etc-$(date +%Y-%m-%d).tgz /etc
As before, hardlink the iso of the install disc[s] into /home.
cd /home/files/Downloads/Zod-dvd-i386/ ln FC-6-i386-DVD.iso /home/
Then you can use
linux askmethod
to install from the HDD. This tends to be faster than installing from CD and less error-prone.
Post-Install
Log in tty1 as root:
Set up sudoers file
EDITOR=nano /usr/sbin/visudo hal ALL=(ALL) ALL hal ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/cdrecord
Set up /home partition.
mv /home /old.home mkdir /home nano /etc/fstab /dev/hdb3 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 mount /home
Login X11 as normal
Remove "quiet rhgb" from kernel options.
sudo nano /etc/grub.conf
Install packages.
sudo yum -y update sudo yum -y install gstreamer-ffmpeg gstreamer-plugins-ugly sudo yum -y install gconf-editor sudo yum -y install mplayer sudo yum -y install bittorrent bittorrent-gui sudo yum -y install alltray sudo yum -y install inkscape emacs sudo yum -y install fortune-mod fortune-firefly sudo yum -y install fonts-japanese fonts-chinese fonts-korean sudo yum -y install bash-completion id3lib id3v2
Install Macromedia Flash.
sudo wget -O /etc/yum.repos.d/macromedia-i386.repo \ http://macromedia.mplug.org/macromedia-i386.repo sudo mkdir -p /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs/ sudo ln -s /etc/X11/fs/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs/config sudo yum -y install flash-plugin
Why do I need to do this?
sudo yum remove totem-mozplugin
Config things.
sudo system-config-printer sudo system-config-network sudo system-config-display sudo system-config-securitylevel Add port tcp/59147
Remove unnecessary services
sudo /sbin/chkconfig autofs off sudo /sbin/chkconfig apmd off sudo /sbin/chkconfig bluetooth off sudo /sbin/chkconfig hidd off sudo /sbin/chkconfig cpuspeed off sudo /sbin/chkconfig firstboot off sudo /sbin/chkconfig gpm off sudo /sbin/chkconfig irqbalance off sudo /sbin/chkconfig isdn off sudo /sbin/chkconfig mdmonitor off sudo /sbin/chkconfig netfs off sudo /sbin/chkconfig nfslock off sudo /sbin/chkconfig pcscd off sudo /sbin/chkconfig portmap off sudo /sbin/chkconfig rpcgssd off sudo /sbin/chkconfig rpcidmapd off
Add guest account
sudo system-config-users
Modify SSH Daemon Configuration.
sudo /sbin/service sshd stop sudo nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config PermitRootLogin no DenyUsers guest Banner /etc/issue.ssh
assume we kept a copy of /etc/ssh/ssh_host_* in a tarball somewhere.
sudo rename ssh_host OLD_ssh_host /etc/ssh/ssh_host_* sudo cp --preserve=mode,timestamps ssh_host_* /etc/ssh/
cd /etc/ssh/ su -c 'for x in ssh*.pub;do ssh-keygen -l -f $x >>/etc/issue.ssh;done' cd -
Edit /etc/issue.ssh to look nice. Add line:
===== Unauthorized Access Prohibited =====
Restart the daemon
sudo /sbin/service sshd start
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