Personal Fedora Core 1 Installation Guide

Mauriat Miranda (http://www.mjmwired.net/contact/)

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Published: 15 December 2003 (updated: 16 August 2004)

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This guide is my personal configuration of Fedora Core 1. I put this page together to provide some common installation tips that I would hope other people would find useful. Keep in mind this works for me, so take care in doing proper backups to critical files whenever trying something.

I did a custom install of Fedora Core 1. I have 3 partitions: a 6GB / main partition, a 10GB /home partition and a 1GB <swap> partition. My boot loader is Grub which is installed on the / partition, NOT the MBR. I use Bootpart from Windows 2000 to load Linux.

Custom Boot Settings

15 January 2004

* I duplicate the entry first entry and remove 'rhgb' which prevents the Graphical Boot Loader from running.
* I add the 'vga=788' to give a larger text console at boot.
* I need the 'hdc=noprobe', since the 2.4.20 kernel and newer seem to have a problem detecting that I have NO hdc disk.
* Add 'nosysinfo' to the kernel line if you'd like to disable NPTL.
edited /boot/grub/grub.conf

title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2115.nptl)
        root (hd0,9)
        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl ro root=LABEL=/1 hdd=ide-scsi hdc=noprobe
        initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.img
title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2115.nptl) - Graphical Boot Loader
        root (hd0,9)
        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl ro root=LABEL=/1 hdd=ide-scsi rhgb hdc=noprobe
        initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.img

Installed Nvidia Driver

29 January 2004

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_archive.html

The Nvidia 1.0-4496 driver doesn't *officially* support FC1. I am not sure if
the 1.0-5328 driver supports Fedora. I chose not to use 1.0-5328, since
there were some reports it has problems with the VIA KT400 chipset (mine).
The 1.0-5336 driver seems to work for me perfectly for Fedora Core 1, with
extra steps (i.e. no "--add-this-kernel").

My recommendation, try the 5336, and if it fails try the 4496.

Login as root to text console  (or F2,F3,F4)
disable X-server, install driver, re-enable X-server:

# init 3

# sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run
(-OR-)
# sh NVIDIA-Li