FC5 Install, the Stanton finley doc

FC5 Install, the Stanton finley doc


# installation:

If you are already connected to an "always on" LAN or broadband connection click on the "Network Time Protocol" tab on the "Date and Time" page and tick the "Enable Network Time Protocol" check box. Click "Forward". You will see a message "Contacting NTP Server. Please wait...".


# not sure what this does
/etc/grub.conf, commet out hidden menu
grub-install /dev/hda


# comment out unnecessary Services
I deselected "anacron", "apmd", "atd", "avahi-daemon" "bluetooth", "cpuspeed", "cups", "cups-config-daemon", "mdmonitor", "nfslock", "rpcgssd", "rpcidmapd", and "sendmail".) 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

at least comment out sendmail

# update entire system
# yum -y update < skip 4 now >




# Configuring Your Montior
# no need



# Yum & repositories
You should not use the livna.org repository in conjunction with the dag/freshrpms/dries/newrpms (RPMforge) collection of rpms in your configuration files for automatic updates. Use one group or the other but not both. Regardless of which group you choose you should also avoid using the ATrpms repository in your yum or apt configuration files

I myself subscribe to the RPMforge collection as you can see in my repository selection instructions below. The dag/freshrpms/dries/newrpms/PlanetCCRMA (RPMforge)

To configure your Fedora Core 5 yum application to use the RPMForge repositories proceed as follows:
rpm -ivh http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/5/freshrpms-release/freshrpms-release-1.1-1.fc.noarch.rpm
gedit /etc/yum.repos.d/macromedia.repo
gedit /etc/yum.repos.d/dries.repo




# Firefox and Thunderbird:
install Session Manager in Firefox
firefox crashing, not sure if from flash/java
had to upgrade
removed directory related to flash, removed flash, no resolv
removed /usr/lib/mozilla/libjavaplugin_oji.so, this fixed it



# nVidia and ATI graphics acceleration
The kernel that ships with the Fedora Core 5 release iso images is not compatible with third party 3D graphics acceleration drivers. You should immediately update your kernel upon installation to get a newer kernel that is compatible. ("yum -y update" as root.)


True Type fonts: # what does this do?



Fedora Extras:
In the following example we install "Grip", the CD ripper, "gtk-gnutella", the P2P client,
# need to get a list of whats available


Yum Extender:
(yumex) is a new GUI front end for managing your updates and package installations via yum



Java
Fedora Core provides an open source implementation of Java. See http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc5/test3-latest-en/#sn-Java for information about this. However many users, myself included, prefer Sun Java for their purposes

I have j2re-1_4_2_13-linux-i586.rpm on my harddrive
# rpm -i j2re-1_4_2_13-linux-i586.rpm
# vi .profile
PATH=/usr/java/j2re1.4.2_13/bin:PATH; export PATH

# ln -s /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_13/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so

Flash
# yum -y install flash-plugin
At the moment there is a bug in Flash that prevents it from displaying normal text in FC5. To resolve this enter the following command as roo


Realplayer # do I really need this?



Rhythmbox Music Player is the default music player in FC5 but does not come with MP3 support
# yum -y install gstreamer-plugins-ugly


Adobe Reader, available in the drives repository
# yum -y install compat-libstdc++-33
# yum -y install acroread openldap openldap-devel



Xine
# yum -y install xine xine-lib xine-skins
If you wish to use Xine to play your DVD movies go to "System" > "Preferences" > "Removable Drives and Media", click on the "Multimedia" tab, tick the check box next to "Play video DVD disks when inserted", enter in the "Command:" box "xine --auto-play --auto-scan dvd" and click "Close".

installed,
:totem %d
xine --auto-play --auto-scan dvd
played my BBS DVD just by inserting
plays slingblade just by inserting
burns alot of CPU, 77%

I wonder if hardware video acceleration will help
Iwould also try running DVD on USB bus, external DVD


Apache
httpd.conf edits
start service


MySQL
install from DVD, along with php-mysql module
trying to install on firewall, but wicked slow
yum is trying to do something.
my.cnf edit
set password for root@toshiba and root@localhost
edit /etc/hosts, add toshiba line, restart mysql

PHP/Perl
already read to go
create a phpinfo.php and printenv.pl file for testing


phpMyAdmin


stuff to do?
- burn a CD & DVD
- xen, get xwindows out of virtual machine
- vnc work / freenx
- FC5 firewall won't NAT
- can't install of DVD, goes directly to net. I solved this problem at work


select user, host, password, select_priv, update_priv, delete_priv, insert_priv from mysql.user;

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO apache@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'xxx';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO apache@'firewall' IDENTIFIED BY 'xxx';