No More Windoze

Sun, 01 Feb 2004 04:04:31 GMT

Well, the time has come to find a new distribution since Redhat will no longer be providing support for 8.0(current version supporting this site). Since Im most familiar with Redhat, Fedora was an obvious choice for my new distro. To ease into this transition and guarantee zero downtime, Ive decided to install Fedora onto the only Windoze box that I currently have. Thats right, my only windoze box will run windoze no more. I guess one could argue that Im upgrading the OS. My plan is to install everything on this machine that my current Redhat 8.0 server provides. My current "can't live without" installed apps are JBoss, MySQL, JAMES, and CVS. Once these are all up and running, Ill do the same to the Redhat 8.0. This will give me poor mans failover in case of a vaporized hard disk or some other hardware failure. I say poor mans failover since redirecting traffic will involve manual reconfiguration of my router.

Fedora Core
Bootup with Disk 1 in CDROM
1) Language Selection
English
2) Keyboard Configuration
U.S. English
3) Mouse Configuration
Generic Wheel Mouse (PS/2)
4) Monitor Configuration
Sony Multiscan 17sf
5) Installation Type
Workstation
6) Disk Partitioning Setup
Manually partition with Disk Druid
7) Disk Setup
/dev/hda1 nfts
/dev/hda2 /boot
/dev/hda3 /
/dev/hda4 swap
8) Boot Loader Configuration
WinXP /dev/hda1 default
Fedora Core /dev/hda3
9) Network Configuration
hostname: pegasus.shoesobjects.com
manual network settings
10) Firewall configuration
No firewall
11) Additional Language Support
none
12) Timezone Selection
America/Chicago
13) Set Root Password
13) Package Installation Defaults
customize software packages to be installed
+ KDE Desktop Environment
+ Server Configuration Tools

Fedora HOWTO apt-get Download the apt-get RPM for Fedora Core here. Once you have installed it, you will need to retrieve an up to date package list using the following command apt-get update. Now that we have the latest package listing for everything installed on the system, we should upgrade the installed packages to the latest and greatest versions. Upon running apt-get upgrade, I see that I have 32 packages to upgrade. By typing a Y at the prompt, I will begin to download all of the upgraded packages, 56.3MB to be specific. Gee, this kinda feels like windows update except I don't have to reboot afterwards :)

Other Packages Installed

More to come.........

Unruly Rambling - mysql tag

No More Windoze