Archive for April, 2006

Moving a Fedora Installation

Sunday, April 23rd, 2006

With the recent purchase of a new harddrive I did not want to re-install every operating system on my previous drive. Since I dual boot with Windows, I first attempted to copy Windows. I tried multiple solutions and Norton Ghost met my requirements however a problem in 48bit LBA (Logical Block Addressing) in Windows 2000 […]

Posted in Linux, Fedora, FC5, Setup | 4 Comments »

Partitioning for 300GB

Tuesday, April 11th, 2006

My new Seagate Barracuda 300GB hard drive just arrived. I’ll need some time to redo my entire computer (currently there are 4 operating systems). Whenever I purchase a new harddrive (about once ever 2 years) I always put some serious evaluation into how I will partition it.
Some points I consider

Windows is primary operating system
A second […]

Posted in Miscellaneous, Devices, Setup | 4 Comments »

PHP4 on Fedora Core 5

Friday, April 7th, 2006

Apparently some developers still require PHP4 on their web servers. The previous method for doing so on Fedora Core 4 (FC4) was to use the FC3 RPM’s. (A formal procedure was provided by the guide: PHP4 on FC4.)
Since the release of FC5, the dependancies and outdated linking from the FC3 RPM packages may be difficult […]

Posted in Fedora, FC4, PHP, Hosting, FC5 | 10 Comments »