Booting Fedora Installer from Disk
If you already have Linux installed, it is possible to boot the Fedora installer to do installs or upgrades without a boot CD. In the images/pxeboot directory of the distribution repository, there is...
View ArticleSVK on Fedora Extras
Over the weekend, I got the SVK version control system included in Fedora Extras. It is in the perl-SVK package. I also packaged up a bunch of its required Perl modules. I actually used svk for the...
View ArticleBoot Camp and Fedora
To celebrate the release of Boot Camp 1.1 beta, I tried to install Fedora Core in the spare space on my drive. Boot Camp worked great to repartition the drive, shrink the Mac OS X partition, and create...
View ArticleBoot Camp, Try 2
I had an idea that the graphical Fedora installer would be okay (or could at least be used with a mouse) even if the keyboard at the console was duplicating keypresses. Instead of trying to do a...
View ArticleMacBook Wireless on Linux
I got the wireless working on my MacBook under Fedora rawhide. The MacBook includes an Atheros chipset which needs the madwifi driver. The madwifi driver can’t be included in the base kernel or...
View ArticleJigdo Files for Fedora Core 6
I have produced Jigdo files files for Fedora Core 6. Jigdo is a program which can produce ISO images from the constituent files and a description. It uses a .template file which contains the...
View ArticleFC6 on MacBook
I am writing this on Fedora Core 6 running on my MacBook. In general, it works pretty well with a few problems. The wireless works great with the madwifi drivers from livna. The biggest problem is that...
View ArticleMaemo SDK on Fedora 9
I got the Maemo SDK installed on Fedora 9. The instructions are pretty complete. First, Scratchbox needs the compat VDSO mode enabled. This is done by echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/vdso_enabled. Also, Qemu...
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