Upgrade to Fedora 4

Although RH7.2 works well, it doesn't support some new applications like VLC. I upgrade it into Fedora 4 in last a few days. Another reason I choose Fedora is that it suggests Pentium 500 and 256MB memory. That fits my DELL server well which is PIII 800 with 256MB RDRAM.

There is a great guide about how to set up Fedora 4, step by step, very detailed, http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_4_installation_notes.html. I downloaded the image from a mirror site http://ftp.uni-koeln.de/mirrors/fedora/linux/core/

The configuration is almost the same to RH7.2 while I use the whole disk for Fedora. It's because that I noticed some discussion about the problems to have Linux and Windows on the same disk. I also choose all graphical administration tools. After it starts, I disabled unused daemons according to Stanton.

CVS:
It's almost the same to that on RH7.2 while now the cvs is already exists in /etc/xinetd.d. You only need to enable it.

Samba:
You don't need to edit /etc/samba/smb.conf. Now it can be done via graphical tool. The other difference is that user access is not limited to his home directory. You can add any share directory and decide who can access it. After saving, restart smb by 'service smb restart'.

SSH and X-windows:
SSH is enabled by default. To set up remote X-windows, it's the same to that in RH7.2

FTP and web server:
Just enable vsftpd and httpd.

I also connect an external hard disk with NTFS to Fedora. It works well! To do that, we need to download the NTFS package from http://www.linux-ntfs.org/. Note we should download the package for Fedora not old Linux. Then rpm -ivh kernel-module-ntfs-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4-2.1.22-0.rr.6.0.i686.rpm. To be able to be accessed by users other than root, use 'mount -t ntfs -r -o umask=0222 /dev/sda2 /home/repository/'. Done!

Before I found the umask trick, all files are only accessible from root. I made a mistake to use 'chmod -R o+x o+r *' to add permission. I don't know if it would impact the NTFS system. I need to run filesystem check later.

I installed Xilinx EDK8.1 on it. The strange thing is that ISE8.1 always doesn't accept the registration ID which is correct. I try ISE webpack 8.1 later.

Anyway, my computing center is upgraded and now very convenient to use. :P