x86_64 Fedora 11 - A sample configuration Well, hello to everyone.
As I said in my previous post, because I'm tired of leaping on the net to find the instructions appropriate to the sequential test with my installations (and especially solutions together to the little problems encountered), I jotted down the list of operations I have done installing the operating system from scratch.
Since all acts, I thought I'd put them online so they can possibly be useful to someone else, of course, are considered by noob for noobs, but everything is ... ;-)
Fedora is a Linux in my opinion excellent, especially as regards the usability and configurability of the system, as well as a look and feel more attractive and now that height, if not much higher, the noble, and expensive, closed source cousins \u200b\u200b(so it is clear that I did not address the brothers Linux and BSD).
The installation was performed on MSI Nevada XG2 with T7200 CPU and Nvidia GeForce Go 7600 with 256 Mb RAM, but the system has been tested very well (at least up to F10) on Packard Bell Easynote 3400, HP Pavilion dv6137ea HP Pavilion dv6165ea, Toshiba Satellite P100-109, Asus Z53J.
What is listed below is a sequence of operations to be carried out after a default install from the DVD for x86_64 Fedora 11 Desktop
It is assumed that the fact should be disk partitioning as needed.
For all other necessary basic instructions (objectively few), I refer you to the excellent site
Fedoraonline or the Fedora Project.
I, for example, I preferred to maintain two primary partitions more to separately install UbuntuStudio (for real-time kernel) and a native WinXP (as well as virtualized) for every eventuality. The 500 gb internal
I then Fedora 11 to complete 40 Gb primary partition, and boot home without breaking down in specific partitions, thus giving room for a second DE (KDE, eg. And any virtualization), an extended partition containing a logical partition to ext3 350 GB and a swap 3Gb, a primary partition with UbuntuStudio and another 30 Gb 40 Gb primary with WinXP,
Both Linux distro ext3 shared partition by accessing the administrator password.
Fedora is installed by default with Gnome, and the following instructions are tested on that.
E 'may be possible to install KDE after using the package manager. The GPK
Gnome Package Manager (GUI for Yum) installed by default works fine, but I'm used to use Yum Extender (yumex), in my opinion, the best GUI for Yum in Fedora.
yumex you have an eye on all the repo installed packages organized into categories, but especially the info on the packages and components and log the progress of the download, including the various issues with the repo and attempts to mirror, to always know where you are, especially in the case of multiple downloads, as happens periodically being updated block. default Fedora recognizes a good amount of wireless cards (as opposed to UbuntuStudio, which by default it wanted to know), so it's easy to just install the wireless card is already able to show the presence of your wireless network (my Intel Corporation PRO / Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection has been recognized on the fly), select the ESSID drop-down list that appears in-tray icon and enter the key (password) that you set the router (because you have set, no? :-))
You should now be able to access the Internet, NB
Upon reboot, You may be required password again: do not type it and cancel dates. The wireless network does not seem to work. Go to the icon-tray and choose your network ESSID and, without more, the network will work (your pw is already stored)
The sequence of operations below, if met, is in my opinion, ' ideal to streamline the configuration process.
However, in this guide
there are other good tutorials.
I deliberately skipped the installation of real player as described in the site (but the browser still has its good plugins) and Windows TrueType fonts, because in my opinion are not essential.
The guide provides instructions given them anyway.
[hereafter referred to open a console - type "su" (enter)
- Enter the administrator password (enter) 
The alternative is to give the command sudo premise, but we must first have set as sudoer, as described below. b) I use gedit, but it may very well use another text editor ;-)]
* Install
yumex and repository rpmfusion
*
console root # yum-y install yumex
* * Download the repository rpmfusion
console root # rpm-Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora / rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm * Install rpmfusion repository (GPG key update) *
launch yumex to update the list (of course along with a lot of other updates :-)) will still install the repository: select for update (import GPG key) and to draw the tail
* Install and yum-yum-presto plugin (improve the management of yum) *
launch yumex
select "all" and look
yum-presto (useful for making quick updates)
then locate and select yum-plugin those considered most useful, eg: yum-plugin-
fastestmirror
yum-yum-plugin-plugin-basearchonly
downloadonly
yum-plugin-filter-data
yum-plugin-list-data yum-plugin-
tmprepo
select and launch the process queue
then quit yumex * * Re-enable the root user
console root
# gedit / etc / pam.d / gdm #
comment with the line: auth required
pam_succeed_if.so user!
quiet root = save and exit gedit
type
# gedit / etc / pam.d / gdm-
password and try again
save and exit gedit
(NB Fedora 10 l ' operation # gedit / etc / pam.d / gdm
enough)
* Enable sudo
* You must be among users sudoers
NB yourname is your login name and your home console
root # chmod + w / etc / sudoers # echo
'yourname ALL = (ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL'>> / etc / sudoers
# chmod-w / etc / sudoers # exit
* Download driver video card *
verify the running kernel (system-information on your computer)
identify the model of this card (if you do not know, download the excellent hardinfo with yumex) and, in yumex, type kmod to find the driver tab corresponding to the kernel loaded
reboot (also to check the correctness of the driver loaded)
* * Install gparted
launch yumex
select "all" search
gparted, select and launch the processes queue at the end
close yumex
* Make readable, writable, and executable if a separate ext3 partition
* if the partition does not have label, run gparted, taking off the ext3 partition, give it the label (eg. in my case I have an ext3 partition of 350 GB on a 500 GB internal HD, I called HD350GB)
exit gparted
mount the partition (you will be prompted for the root password) and verify the existence of the directory on average (in my case / media/HD350GB)
console root # chmod 777-R / media/HD350GB
where HD350GB 's label of the partition that you have first given
Alternatively, run "autorizations" in System / Preferences, and under disk / mount system-internal device to select the item
Admin Authorization (Keep Indefinitely)
in this way will be prompted for an administrator password only the first time it will mount
* Find the UUID of the partition on the fly * 
run gparted, select the partition with the right mouse button and choose "Information" :-)
* Change the default directory *
edit
$ home / xxxx / .config / user-dirs.dirs
* Change * Grub
although I installed WinXP in the first sequence and then UbuntuStudio, the Fedora grub , whose operational stage 2 was installed in the boot of Fedora, as I wanted, I only saw WinXP (Other). Not bad.
The changes I made are the following:
console root # cp / etc / yum.conf / etc / yum.conf.backup
# gedit / etc / yum.conf
change installonly_limit increased from 3 to 5
save and close gedit
I five kernel help keep stored at least one kernel prior to any change made with the update for kernel security in case of failure
always
console root # cp / boot / grub / grub.conf / boot / grub / grub . conf.backup
# gedit / boot / grub / grub.conf
I edited, I was there already, the timeout of grub, raising it from 5 to 20 (the operation could also be made by the Administration menu) and then I
added to the launch Ubuntustudio, with this result:
default = 0 timeout = 20
splashimage = (hd0, 0) / boot / grub / splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.29.4-167.fc11.x86_64)
root (hd0, 0) kernel
/ boot/vmlinuz-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.x86_64 ro root = UUID = 8c007f63-8040-4a53-9F17-36228dbcd89c
rhgb quiet initrd / boot/initrd-2.6.29.4-167 . fc11.x86_64.img
title UbuntuStudio 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-3-
rt root (hd0, 2)
kernel / boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-3-rt root = UUID = ef889ec2-7891-3674- 9505-a06ac58d046a
ro quiet splash initrd / boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-3-rt
quiet
title WindowsXP rootnoverify (hd0, 3) chainloader +1
It 'obvious that (hd0, x), as well as codes UUID and kernel releases follow the logical partitions and operating systems that I set at the time on my notebook, and therefore must be modified to suit individual .
If you do not know what they are, there is always a good friend gparted to remove the doubts about partitions and UUID, and you should have the foresight to write down and put the right systems in other linux kernel install, modify grub in case of updating these (that of Fedora will be updated automatically). Save and close gedit
grub at this point shows the three options (Fedora, UbuntuStudio and WinXP), and can store at least one additional kernel Fedora to be updated.
* * Install updates
launch yumex
select the updates (I recommend it for groups of programs, and not all together) and launch the process queue
then quit yumex *
Install Flash Player platform x86_64 (aka flash viewer in the browser, which is essential for youtube and similar)
* Easy and fast (thanks Miranda!)
Download the Flash plugin here
64-bit alpha-libflashplayer 10.0.22.87.linux x86_64.so.tar.gz-(no more 32-bit!)
If you have downloaded in the folder downloaded to user terminal type:
$ Cd / home / yourname / Downloads
then type: $ sudo tar-zxvf
libflashplayer-10.0.22.87.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz-C / usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins
restart Firefox or the browser-based you are using Mozilla
Finished, and without much trouble! While you're
also installed $ sudo yum install nspluginwrapper. {I586, x86_64}-plugins-alsa pulseaudio.i586
to complete any dependencies useful, especially in the audio portion
if you use Opera:
go to the site and download version.
rpm double click and start the automatic installation
verified the correct installation, and then close Opera (now the plugin probably still will not work)
open the hidden folder. work in your home, open the file pluginpath.ini and make sure you have the following lines
/ usr / lib / opera / plugins = 1
/ usr / lib / flash-plugin = 1
/ usr / lib / mozilla / plugins = 1
/ usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins-wrapped = 1
those that are missing, add them and everything will work
* Install Java Runtime Environment on x86_64 platform (for Firefox and Opera) *
It sounds simple, but, at least for me, it was not.
One thing that sent me off the road was initially the board of Sun on the download page of the site of Java, where the recommended version even the 32bit x86_64 systems.
not good (or at least in my case it did not work). Fedora
defaul install the version of OpenJDK, which still has limits.
Miranda, the guide mentioned above, it does not require removal in case of downloading the version of the Sun, providing the command "alternatives".
I, to be sure, however I uninstalled the default version (java-1.6.0-openjdk) and the 32bit version that I had improperly installed and I rebooted the system to start from scratch. Start
yumex search for the file java-1.6.0-openjdk and uncheck jre and if you try other versions appear to also uncheck
these dates draw the tail
quit and restart yumex
Then I followed the recommendations of
guide for the 64bit version, which I summarize briefly: download from the site of Sun
version "Linux x64 RPM (it will download the file jre- 6u14-linux-x64-rpm.bin) Assuming that you downloaded in the folder "Downloads" of your home, open the console and type:
$ cd / home / yourname / Downloads
then type: $ sudo sh jre-
6u14-linux-x64-rpm.bin
press the space until the end of the license agreement, then type "yes"
applied at the end of the command alternatives (yes, I know, OpenJDK is removed, follow the advice but walking does not hurt) by typing:
$ sudo / usr / sbin / alternatives - install / usr / bin / java java / usr / java / default / bin / java 20000
this is a reference in most (the folder / etc / alternatives), but does the same, then type:
$ sudo / usr / sbin / alternatives - install / usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so \\
libjavaplugin.so.x86_64 / usr / java/default/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so 20000
(Note the phrase should be copied in full because it is a single command)
When finished, exit Firefox, if it is open, and reboot the system.
Firefox at this point will be OK, and you can check this with the command about: plugins on the URL bar, where you can see that using the Java plugin libnpjp2.so, located in the / usr/java/default/lib/amd64.
The problem at this point is Opera, and this, in fact, continue to point to the folder of the Java OpenJDK.
order to run Java you will need to point to the appropriate folder containing the files and libjava.so libawt.so, as described here
.
seek libjava.so file in the file system, and find the file located in the / usr/java/jre1.6.0_14/lib/amd64
At this point, start Opera, the menu Tools-Preferences-Advanced-Content, check the box "Enable Java" (if it is not yet), click on the button "Java options" and type (or copincollate) the path / usr/java/jre1.6.0_14/lib/amd64.
clicking on the "Validate Java Route" it appears that there operation.
* * Install the libdvdcss library
is currently only in the old livna repository and has not yet been implemented in rpmfusion
to install it you must enable the livna repository
$ sudo rpm-ivh http://rpm.livna. org / livna-release.rpm
launch yumex
select "all" and look for libdvdcss
select and prepare to give the tail
during installation you are prompted to import the GPG key: answer "yes"
close yumex.
In the next post, packages / add-on programs that I installed.
I assume you have already installed the VirtualBox Guest nell'XP Additions. 
# gedit / etc / rc.d / rc.sysinit 
usb :-) 
sn9c20x: No ack from I2C slave address 0x30 to 0x2F for write 
firestarter (firewall simple tool for Gnome) 
gconf-cleaner (to clean your GConf database; useful, but use with care) 
recordmydesktop (+ gtk or qt) (desktop session recorder) 
Open / home / xxxxx / .opera / speeddial.ini and insert the following lines 
- 
The alternative is to give the command sudo premise, but we must first have set as sudoer, as described below. 