Fedora Installation Notes

Fedora 7 Installation Notes

Virtual PC

Installation of Fedora 7 on a Windows box using Microsoft Virtual PC 6.0.156.0 is possible. Here are some notes:

• Use text installation mode.

• After the installation completes and the system reboots, the screen will come up in an unreadable state. However, you will be able to connect to the system using a ssh client (you can use: nmap -p 22 192.168.1.100-250 on a range of IP addresses to help identify the system).

• After connecting to the system using a ssh client, add the vga=771 boot option to: "/boot/grub/grub.conf". It will look something like the following:

title Fedora (2.6.22.1-41.fc7)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.22.1-41.fc7 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet vga=771
        initrd /initrd-2.6.22.1-41.fc7.img

• Edit the file: "/etc/inittab" and set the default run level to 3.

• Reboot the system.

At this point you should have a stable development system. You won't have a graphical desktop, but you can use a VNC desktop should you need graphical access.

NOTE: Even though the system won't have a graphical desktop started, you may still want to change the graphics driver to vesa using the following command: "system-config-display --set-driver=vesa". This way you will at least be able to see the screen if you forget and try to start X via: "init 5".