Fedora Core 5 Installation & HOWTO

Fedora Core 5 Overview
"Fedora Core is an RPM-based Linux distribution, developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat. The name derives from Red Hat's characteristic fedora used in its "Shadowman" logo. However, the Fedora community project had existed as a volunteer group providing extra software for the Red Hat Linux distribution before Red Hat got involved as a direct sponsor.^[1]" (Wikipedia)

See the Fedora Core homepage for further details.

Background & Purpose
See the Background Information page for the purpose of these pages, and information about the Enlightenment Windows Manager DR17 (E17).

FC5 Installation Notes & HOWTOs
The Installation Notes cover three main topics:

1. Pre-Installation Tasks
2. Installation
3. Post-Installation Changes (Listed by Order of Importance)

The HOWTOs cover seven main topics, and a topic regarding preparation to install FC6:

1. General Setup for Installing Applications
2. Server & General Setup (Listed by Order of Importance)
3. Security & Spam
4. Enlightenment DR17 (E17)
5. Multimedia-Based Applications & Setup
6. Drawing & Image Manipulation Programs
7. Programing Applications & General Utilities

8. Preparing to Install Fedora Core 6

Table of Contents

Fedora Core 5 Systems Administration
Background Information

FC5 Installation Notes and HOWTOs

FC5 Installation Notes

1. Pre-Installation Tasks
     1.1 Partition Sizes
   1.2 Dual Boot Options

2. Installation
   2.1 Installation Procedure
2.2 First Boot

3. Post-Installation Changes
     3.1 sudo
   3.2 Shell Environment (tcsh) & .tcshrc Script
   3.3 Secure Shell (ssh & sshd)
   3.4 Services
   3.5 cpuspeed
   3.6 Updating the Database for mlocate
   3.7 Boot Options
   3.8 nautilus
   3.9 LaTeX Configuration
     3.10 beep (curses bell)

FC5 HOWTOs

1. Setup for Installing Applications
   1.1 yum, yum-fastestmirror, yumex, & yum-utils
   1.2 Repositories & Updates

2. Server & General Setup
   2.1 Firewall
   2.2 SELinux
   2.3 Networking
   2.4 Network File System (NFS)
   2.5 Automated Backups & Scripting with rsync
   2.6 sendmail Configuration
   2.7 fetchmail Configuration
   2.8 Apache Web Server
   2.9 Samba Server for Windows
   2.10 MySQL Server
   2.11 phpMyAdmin
   2.12 MediaWiki
   2.13 phpBB
   2.14 Network Printing with CUPS
   2.15 Scanning with xsane
   2.16 NTFS for Windows Partitions

FC5 HOWTOs (continued)

3. Security & Spam
     3.1 blockhosts
     3.2 RKhunter
     3.3 spambayes

4. Enlightenment DR17 (E17)
     4.1 E17 Installation
     4.2 E17 Entrance Setup
     4.3 E17 General Configuration
     4.4 E17 Animated Backgrounds

5. Multimedia-Based Applications & Setup
     5.1 Nvidia Driver
     5.2 MSFonts
     5.3 Acrobat Reader & Plugin
     5.4 Flash Plugin
     5.5 Java
     5.6 RealPlayer
     5.7 Mplayer, Mplayerplug-in, & .xpi
     5.8 xmms, audacious, & bmpx (with mp3 plugin)
     5.9 BitTorrent & Azureus
5.10 Burning CDs from the Command Prompt

6. Drawing & Image Manipulation Programs
     6.1 IVTools
     6.2 Tgif
     6.3 xv
     6.4 gv
6.5 pdftk
     6.6 jpeg2ps
     6.7 pngout

7. Programing Applications & General Utilities
     7.1 AUCTeX
     7.2 IDL
     7.3 Nvu/KompoZer
     7.4 Pine
     7.5 TeTeX Extras
     7.6 xosview
     7.7 gparted & qtparted
     7.8 Other Applications

8. Preparing to Install Fedora Core 6

Additional Fedora Core/Fedora Systems Administration Pages
Fedora Core 6 Installation Notes and HOWTOs
Fedora 7 Installation Notes and HOWTOs
Fedora 8 Installation Notes and HOWTOs
Fedora 9 Installation Notes and HOWTOs

Linux Systems Administration — Fedora Core 5 Notes