Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Fun with linux - Fedora Core 7

[1] Tune up

mii-tool
Check and see if the LAN card is set on 100 Mb full-duplex
# mii-tool

Got a strange output (probably working on 100 Mb half-duplex):
# mii-tool
eth0: autonegotiation failed, link ok
eth1: no link


Force LAN card to work on 100 Mb
# mii-tool -F 100BaseTx-FD


DAG repository
# wget http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.fc3.rf.i386.rpm
# rpm -Uhv rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.fc3.rf.i386.rpm


Java Runtime Environment (JRE)
>> Download jre-6u1-linux-i586.bin (Linux self-extracting file)
# yum install compat-libstdc++-33 compat-libstdc++-296
# sh jre-6u1-linux-i586.bin
# mv -f jre1.6* /opt/jre1.6
# ln -s /opt/jre1.6/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so
Details on Personal Fedora 7 Installation Guide & GCC Compatibility webpages.

NTFS support
Example of /etc/fstab configuration:
/dev/sda2 /mnt/win/sda1 ntfs-3g rw,defaults,umask=0000 0 0
Details on Personal Fedora 7 Installation Guide website.




[2] Installation
- all programs, by default (from DVD)

Other software using yum (following this order):
- aMSN 0.96 (amsn.i386-0.96-7.fc7 + bwidget.noarch-1.8.0-1.fc6, sox.i386-13.0.0-1, tcldom.i386-3.1-10.fc7, tcllib.noarch-1.9-4.fc7, tclsoap.noarch-1.6.7-4.fc7, tcltls.i386-1.5.0-11.fc6, tclxml.i386-3.1-11.fc7, tkdnd.i386-1.0a2-7.fc6) - 4.8 M
- iptraf (iptraf-3.0.0-6.fc7) - 327 k
- AbiWord (abiword.i386-2.4.6-5.fc7 + goffice.i386-0.2.2-1.fc7, gtkmathview.i386-0.7.6-5.fc6, libwpd.i386-0.8.9-2.fc7, link-grammar.i386-4.2.2-2.fc6, mathml-fonts.noarch-1.0-21.fc6, ots-libs.i386-0.4.2-11.fc7) - 9.2 MB
- Gnumeric (gnumeric.i386-1.6.3-6.fc7 + libgda.i386-1.9.100-12.fc7, libgnomedb.i386-1.9.100-15.fc7, libgsf-gnome.i386-1.14.3-4.fc7) - 13 MB
- Putty (putty-0.60-1.fc7.i) - 1.3 MB
- Midnight Commander (mc-4.6.1a-45.20070) - 2.1 MB
- Krusader (krusader-1.80.0-0 + kdebindings-3.5.6) - 8.7 MB
- Wine (wine-0.9.36-2.fc7 + wine-capi.i386-0.9.36-2.fc7, wine-cms.i386-0.9.36-2.fc7, wine-core.i386-0.9.36-2.fc7, wine-esd.i386-0.9.36-2.fc7, wine-jack.i386-0.9.36-2.fc7, wine-ldap.i386-0.9.36-2.fc7, wine-nas.i386-0.9.36-2.fc7, wine-tools.i386-0.9.36-2.fc7, wine-twain.i386-0.9.36-2.fc7) - 9.9 MB



Windows/Linux Symbiosis by Softpedia

I'm trying to follow the tutorial, but I'm getting stuck because of errors. However, I'll make a brief description here of problems I encountered and how I resolved them.

# yum install rdesktop

# yum install vmware-server
>> didn't work, perhaps I don't have yum repositories - I just leave it alone and downloaded RPM fom VMware *:
#


To do:
- flash player
- install necessary software
- remove duplicated programs (i.e. several PDF viewers)
- samba config (local share + auth on domain)

Observations:
- Evolution (email client) seems pretty cool: nice filtering junk mail system.


* other useful links:...


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