Archive for the ‘Install’ Category
Anaconda is Awesome! How to force a network request with local media using kickstart
I sure love it when I solve my own problems, but the internets are a great help to enabling me.
Today, I found myself needing to enable the network (using dhcp) from the anaconda command line (the part that says boot: when you load a CentOS/RHEL/Fedora install disk).
I needed this because I was providing a bit [...]
Meme: First thing I do after installing (insert your distro here)
Obviously, my distro is Fedora, but for those of you who might choose something else, let’s play along.
This meme comes from Valent Turkovic’s blog post a few days ago, so I thought I’d share mine.
$ su -c ‘yum install nautilus-open-terminal’
This enables me to right click on the desktop and click ‘Open in Terminal’. This is [...]
FUDCon Friday: A very, very, very long day – quite fun!
Got to FUDCon today after a nice semi-sleepy red-eye flight. I was surprisingly awake for a person who has had less than 3 hours of sleep in the last 24+ hours. As I arrived, following Max’s instructions to the Hyne’s Convention Center, an announcement. The spins hackfest was beginning.
I quickly grabbed some coffee and an [...]
Utah Fedora/Ubuntu Linux Release Party Outtakes
Well, usually I forget to take pictures, because either A) I forget my camera [I brought it this time] or 2) I get wrapped up in the event and forget to bring it with me. But this release party, I plain just forgot to charge my batteries for my camera, oops!
Fortunately, I was able to [...]
Distro Comparison: openSUSE 10.3 first impressions
I don’t know if I can last an entire week with openSUSE 10.3. I can’t believe I even thought it possible. I am jonesing for Fedora right now, even though any other distro would probably do…
What’s wrong with SUSE you ask? Just about EVERYTHING! I’m not comfortable at all in this [...]
A New Series: Distro Comparisons, with Flair!
Its been a little couple weeks since I posted anything useful in my Program of the Week (POW) series. And while I still plan to keep that up in the near future, I am going to be doing a new series, Distro Comparisons, with Flare!
My plan is to install the other two major distros [...]
POW: Bluetooth Improvements in Fedora 8
The POW is going to be the improvements made in the Bluetooth functionality in Fedora 8. I’m actually quite impressed with it as its been a bit of a challenge to keep my little mouse connected in the past.
Fedora 8 provides a new extended technology with its bluez-gnome package. In fact, the simplicity [...]
Werewolf (Fedora 8) Upgrade in 3 Easy Steps Using yum
Recently, there was a request in one of my comments on this post. The request was for an easy way to upgrade from Fedora 7 to Fedora 8. So I took this on as a bit of a challenge. I feel pretty comfortable with yum and I thought it would be a [...]
POW: Codec Buddy
This week’s Program of the Week is a bit ahead of its release. The package is Codec Buddy, and is currently slated for release in Fedora 8 tomorrow.
Codec Buddy, with a little help from the Fedora and Fluendo development teams has grown into something that could be great. I see Codec Buddy really [...]
Thoughts on the Fedora Upgrade – Part 1
So its been a whole two days since I upgraded to Werewolf. I love it! Most everything works out of the box (OOTB), wireless, bluetooth, even suspend/resume seem to be possible for the first time!
But one of the oddities I encountered while upgrading was the names of the packages. Mind you, this [...]
