Difference between revisions of "Installing Fedora Core 6 on a ThinkPad T60"
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== First Boot == | == First Boot == | ||
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| + | == Works Out of the Box == | ||
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| + | * Wired ethernet | ||
| + | * Video at 1400x1050(VESA driver) | ||
| + | * Touchpad / Mouse | ||
| + | * Think-light | ||
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| + | === Setting Up Additional Repositories === | ||
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| + | In order to get the ATI driver and the Intel Wireless working, you will need to add two repositories to your cpmuter; [http://rpm.livna.org/ Livna RPMs] and [http://atrpms.net/ AT-RPMs] repositories to your machine. | ||
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| + | ; Enabling Livna's Repository | ||
| + | : As root, rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm . | ||
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| + | ; Enabling AT-RPMs Repository | ||
| + | : As root, use your favorite editor to create /etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo and type in; | ||
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| + | [atrpms] | ||
| + | name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - ATrpms | ||
| + | baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/fc$releasever-$basearch/atrpms/stable | ||
| + | gpgkey=http://ATrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms | ||
| + | gpgcheck=1 | ||
| + | </pre> | ||
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| + | === ATI Video Driver === | ||
Revision as of 02:51, 5 November 2006
- Note: this page is a work in progress
Contents
Installation
Installation of Fedora Core 6 (Zod) on a Thinkpad T60 (xxxx). The installation completes successfully but installs the i586 kernel instead of the required i686 kernel. The wrong kernel is due to a known bug in the Anaconda installer.
First Boot
Works Out of the Box
- Wired ethernet
- Video at 1400x1050(VESA driver)
- Touchpad / Mouse
- Think-light
Post Install
Getting Up to Date
Replacing the Kernel
As previously mentioned, the i586 kernel is installed on this machine instead of the i686 version. The i686 version is required to install the ATI video drivers and Intel Wireless drivers required to get this machine 100% operational.
Installing the new kernel can be done by various methods as documented on the Red Hat Bugzilla bug. However, the safest method is to use [yum] to do the kernel swap.
To swap kernels:
- Open up a terminal window are become root.
- Execute
yum remove kernel
- Make note of any other packages that will be removed due to dependency issues. The packages will have to be reinstalled in the next step.
- Install the kernel.i686 package and any other packages removed in the previous step.
- Reboot
A complete transaction log of what you may expect:
[root@scottt60 ~]# yum remove kernel Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up Remove Process Resolving Dependencies --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package kernel.i586 0:2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 set to be erased --> Running transaction check Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files --> Processing Dependency: kernel >= 2.6 for package: gnome-volume-manager --> Processing Dependency: kernel >= 2.6.12-1.1411_FC5 for package: pcmciautils --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes. --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package pcmciautils.i386 0:014-5 set to be erased ---> Package gnome-volume-manager.i386 0:2.15.0-2.fc6 set to be erased --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: gnome-volume-manager for package: gnome-session --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes. --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package gnome-session.i386 0:2.16.0-3.fc6 set to be erased --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: gnome-session >= 2.15.90-2.fc6 for package: compiz --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes. --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package compiz.i386 0:0.0.13-0.32.20060817git.fc6 set to be erased --> Running transaction check Dependencies Resolved ============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= Removing: kernel i586 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 installed 43 M Removing for dependencies: compiz i386 0.0.13-0.32.20060817git.fc6 installed 1.9 M gnome-session i386 2.16.0-3.fc6 installed 1.3 M gnome-volume-manager i386 2.15.0-2.fc6 installed 1.9 M pcmciautils i386 014-5 installed 57 k Transaction Summary ============================================================================= Install 0 Package(s) Update 0 Package(s) Remove 5 Package(s) Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: Running Transaction Test Finished Transaction Test Transaction Test Succeeded Running Transaction Removing : pcmciautils ######################### [1/5] grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template Removing : kernel ######################### [2/5] Removing : gnome-session ######################### [3/5] Removing : compiz ######################### [4/5] Removing : gnome-volume-manager ######################### [5/5] Removed: kernel.i586 0:2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 Dependency Removed: compiz.i386 0:0.0.13-0.32.20060817git.fc6 gnome-session.i386 0:2.16.0-3.fc6 gnome-volume-manager.i386 0:2.15.0-2.fc6 pcmciautils.i386 0:014-5 Complete! [root@scottt60 ~]# yum install kernel.i686 gnome-session compiz gnome-volume-manager pcmciautils Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up Install Process Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files Parsing package install arguments Resolving Dependencies --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Downloading header for gnome-session to pack into transaction set. gnome-session-2.16.0-3.fc 100% |=========================| 30 kB 00:00 ---> Package gnome-session.i386 0:2.16.0-3.fc6 set to be updated ---> Downloading header for pcmciautils to pack into transaction set. pcmciautils-014-5.i386.rp 100% |=========================| 4.2 kB 00:00 ---> Package pcmciautils.i386 0:014-5 set to be updated ---> Downloading header for compiz to pack into transaction set. compiz-0.0.13-0.32.200608 100% |=========================| 20 kB 00:01 ---> Package compiz.i386 0:0.0.13-0.32.20060817git.fc6 set to be updated ---> Downloading header for kernel to pack into transaction set. kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6. 100% |=========================| 206 kB 00:02 ---> Package kernel.i686 0:2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 set to be installed ---> Downloading header for gnome-volume-manager to pack into transaction set. gnome-volume-manager-2.15 100% |=========================| 22 kB 00:00 ---> Package gnome-volume-manager.i386 0:2.15.0-2.fc6 set to be updated --> Running transaction check Dependencies Resolved ============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= Installing: compiz i386 0.0.13-0.32.20060817git.fc6 core 426 k gnome-session i386 2.16.0-3.fc6 core 408 k gnome-volume-manager i386 2.15.0-2.fc6 core 403 k kernel i686 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 core 16 M pcmciautils i386 014-5 core 29 k Transaction Summary ============================================================================= Install 5 Package(s) Update 0 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s) Total download size: 17 M Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: (1/5): gnome-session-2.16 100% |=========================| 408 kB 00:03 (2/5): pcmciautils-014-5. 100% |=========================| 29 kB 00:00 (3/5): compiz-0.0.13-0.32 100% |=========================| 426 kB 00:04 (4/5): kernel-2.6.18-1.27 100% |=========================| 16 MB 03:13 (5/5): gnome-volume-manag 100% |=========================| 403 kB 00:04 Running Transaction Test Finished Transaction Test Transaction Test Succeeded Running Transaction Installing: kernel ######################### [1/5] grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template Installing: gnome-volume-manager ######################### [2/5] Installing: gnome-session ######################### [3/5] Installing: pcmciautils ######################### [4/5] Installing: compiz ######################### [5/5] Installed: compiz.i386 0:0.0.13-0.32.20060817git.fc6 gnome-session.i386 0:2.16.0-3.fc6 gnome-volume-manager.i386 0:2.15.0-2.fc6 kernel.i686 0:2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 pcmciautils.i386 0:014-5 Complete! [root@scottt60 ~]#
Setting Up Additional Repositories
In order to get the ATI driver and the Intel Wireless working, you will need to add two repositories to your cpmuter; Livna RPMs and AT-RPMs repositories to your machine.
- Enabling Livna's Repository
- As root, rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm .
- Enabling AT-RPMs Repository
- As root, use your favorite editor to create /etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo and type in;
[atrpms] name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - ATrpms baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/fc$releasever-$basearch/atrpms/stable gpgkey=http://ATrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms gpgcheck=1
