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Operating Systems Linux Fedora3 After XP Post 66953 by tmarikle on Friday 18th of March 2005 12:10:31 PM

03-18-2005

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I have 2 hard disks. On Quantum I got XP running smoothly (and sometimes slowly too Smilie

). Now I want to install Fedora3 on the 2nd hard disk (Fujistu). I need detail instructions as I'm new to Linux.

The drives themselves don't matter.

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1) How do I hook up the data cables connecting the IDE slots (there're 2) on motherboard and the hard disks ?

Just use the cable that is connected to the drive where your Windoze XP is installed. There should be a second connector that isn't being used.

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2) Which disk needs to be Master and which is Slave ?

Your Windoze XP disk is already the master, leave it this way. The Linux drive can be the slave. Read the instructions that came with your drive to determine where the jumper should be positioned on the drive. The jumper is a little black square with two holes in it already resting on some pins physically on the drive. It should already be set to slave but it may not be.

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3) Do I need to create a /boot partition in the linux disk ? If so, what should be its size ?

You can if you wish. 10 GB should be enough, someone else can probably give you some better guidelines for partition sizes.

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4) What should be the size of /swap partition ?

Typically 2x your physical RAM size. If RAM=512MB then swap can be 1GB.

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5) Where should I install GRUB bootloader into, MBR or the /, or /boot partition ?

There are two components to GRUB. One will reside in the MBR and the other will be in /boot. The MBR component is the bootstrap code and invokes GRUB so that it can either boot the Linux O/S or XP. If XP, it will invoke NTLOADER that XP installed.

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6) AFter installation, how do I boot into the OS's ???

GRUB is a boot manager and that is its job. Fedora will, by default, want to boot first and will have timer ticking down to automatically do so. You can change these settings after everything is working properly. Back up the grub.conf file before mucking with it. You can recover it with the emergency boot CD and put back the working one if you mess things up (this is coming from someone who messed his own up more than once on a tripple boot configuration).

The Fedora installer is very nice and takes care of most things for you.

Good luck

Thomas

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UML_MCONSOLE(1) 					      General Commands Manual						   UML_MCONSOLE(1)

NAME

       uml_mconsole -- attach to the management console of a user-mode Linux kernel

SYNOPSIS

       uml_mconsole [socket]  [command ...]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the uml_mconsole command.

       This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

       uml_mconsole  is  a  program  to  connect to the management console of a user-mode Linux kernel.  The UML management console is a low-level
       interface to the kernel, somewhat like the i386 SysRq interface. Since there is a full-blown operating system  under  UML,  there  is  much
       greater flexibility possible than with the SysRq mechanism.

OPTIONS

       socket	 The pathname of the socket to which to connect.  This is printed when UML boots, for example:

       mconsole initialized on /tmp/umlNJ32yL/mconsole

		 In this example, you would start uml_mconsole like this:

       uml_mconsole umlNJ32yL

       command	 Any of the commands listed in the "COMMANDS" section.

COMMANDS

       version	 Prints the UML version number.

       halt	 Shuts down the UML system immediately, without syncing disks or cleanly shutting down swap space.

       reboot	 Reboots the UML system immediately, without syncing disks or cleanly shutting down swap space.

       log string
		 Cause UML to log string to the kernel log.

       cad	 Invokes the Control-Alt-Delete handler.

       sysrq letter
		 Performs the SysRq action controlled by letter.

       stop	 Pauses UML.  UML will do nothing until the 'go' command is issued.

       go	 Resumes execution after a 'stop' command.

       config device
		 Adds  a  new  device to the virtual machine, or queries the configuration of an existing device.  It takes one argument, which is
		 either the device to add, with the same syntax as the kernel command line, or the name of an existing device.	For example:

       (mconsole)
       config ubd3=root_fs_debian22
       OK

       (mconsole)
       config ubd3
       OK root_fs_debian22

       remove	 Deletes a device from the virtual machine.  Its argument is the name of the device to be removed.  In the case of the ubd driver,
		 the  removed  block  device must not be mounted, swapped on, or otherwise open, and in the case of the network driver, the device
		 must be down.

       (mconsole)
       remove ubd3
       OK

SEE ALSO

       linux(1)

       The UserModeLinux-HOWTO (link to URL http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/UserModeLinux-HOWTO.html)

AUTHOR

       uml_mconsole was written by Jeff Dike and others.

       This manual page was written by Matt Zimmerman mdz@debian.org for the Debian GNU/Linux system, based on material in the UserModeLinux-HOWTO
       by Rusty Russell, and the uml_mconsole source code.

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