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configuration are working fine in live/ LAB environments.
 Fedora Core 4 Installation
Insert Fedora Core CD in CDRom and restart your PC from CDRom
Boot.
on first screen of Fedora Core installation press “enter”
to install Fedora Core in graphix
mode.
Now installation ask for “Check
/ test CD Media …..” press “tab”
button to highlight “skip”
and press “spacebar”.
Now your installation “Probe”
your system graphix card, monitor and other hardware.
Click “Next”
on Installation screen.
Now
installation asks to select language of installation, select “English”
and click “Next”.
Select
keyboard type “US. English”
and click Next.
Now the installation ask to select installation type, select “Server” and click Next.
This
Screen ask you how you want disk partitions select “automatically partition” and click next.
Now select “remove all
partitions on this system” and click Next.
Now installation shows your partition table, which it creates
automatically, click Next
and don’t change any partition. (until you know what are you doing).
Click Next and don’t
change anything on this screen.
In network device window you have to setup your network card and
your system name, to do this select “manually
“ and type a name for your system, e.g. dns1pc.
Now click on edit to edit your network card “eth0”
properties. Now deselect “Configure
using DHCP” and select “activate
on boot”. Now type IP address for your network card and type its
subnet mask and click OK.
Now type your gateway IP address for your system and type DNS IP,
and click Next.
Select “No firewall”
and click Next.
(the
system will ask you for select firewall, click on “proceed”)
Select “English (
USA
)” for default language of your system and click Next.
Select “Asia/
Karachi
” for time zone and click Next.
Now type “a password for
your ROOT user” and click Next.
Now its time to select packages for Fedora Core server
installation,
Select
these below mention packages to install your Fedora Core as a DNS
server.
►
Desktop.
├
KDE (K Desktop environment)
►
Applications.
├
editor → click details and select “joe”
click OK.
├
Graphical Internet.
├
Text base Internet → click details and select “lynx-
A text base…….” and click OK.
►
Servers.
├
Servers Configuration tools,
├
Web Server.
├
Windows file server.
├
DNS Server.
├
FTP server.
├
MySQL Database → click details and select “php-mysql
– A module for…” and click OK.
►
Development.
├
Development tools → click details and select “expect
, Ruby, “ and click OK.
├
KDE Software Development.
├
Java Development.
►
System.
├
Administration Tools.
├
System tools → details → and select “iptraf,
MRTG, Net-SNMP-utils, uucp and click Next.
Now
click Next after selection of
extra packages with default selected packages.
Click Next.
Click Next again.
System will ask you “Do
you have all CDs for installation” click Proceed
/ continue.
(if
you don't have all 4 Fedora Core CD's for installation, SLAP on your
head and go get them)
Now sit back and relax while system installs its installation
files. then only work is to change CDs one by one.
Now
your system will ask you for reboot after installation of all CDs.
If
all goes fine, say HiP HiP Hurrrrrrrrrrayyyyyyy. your Fedora Core
installation done successfully.
After
1st boot, you will see a Welcome Screen of Fedora Core, Click
Next.
On license agreement check mark “Yes,
I agree to license” and click Next.
Click Next on Date and time.
Click Next if you are
agreeing with resolution setting of your monitor, or change it as you
wish.
On “user account”
window, create a TEST user
and click Next.
Click Next on “Sound card” window,
Click Next on “Additional CDs” window.
Click Next on “Finish Setup” window.
Now type username “root”
and its password to loginIN in your system.
Fedora
Core 4 Installation
done/ finish. Now its time to configure DNS service.
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Note:
To change boot sequence default + console base boot (non graphical boot)
you have to made some changes in your grub.conf file. To do this ...
edit your grub.conf file in your favorite text editor. ( /boot/grub/grub.conf)
your
file looks like this.
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core (2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb
quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp.img
title Fedora Core-up (2.6.11-1.1369_FC4)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb
quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.img
Change/
delete some arguments to boot from console/ non graphix (delete bold
text from your grub.conf file) and change boot sequence, you have to
change blue lines sequence.
After
these changes the file looks like this.
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core-up (2.6.11-1.1369_FC4)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
initrd /initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
initrd /initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp.img
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