Fedora 10 Linux
Installation notes for Fedora 10 on my AMD Athlon64 3200+. As usual, you can find more complete Howtos on the Net, so I won't repeat this here.
Download
Via one of the ftp mirrors. Burn to DVD, done.
Basic install
As with my previous installation, I did not do an update but a complete reinstall. I just scraped the old FC8 installation, keeping the home-directories and manually installed software.
Tweaking
Installer
The installer had issues with hardware detection and configuration, I was able to get it running by adding acpi=off to the startup commandline:
linux acpi=off
The downside: Currently I do not have auto-shutdown by default, I have to tweak this a little bit further.
Java
Install Sun Java as described here:
<bash> $ sudo sh jre-6u11-linux-i586-rpm.bin </bash>
Enable it via alternatives, otherwise, the default OpenJDK will be used by default:
<bash> $ sudo /usr/sbin/alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /usr/java/default/bin/java 20000 </bash>
Same for the Mozilla plugin
<bash> $ sudo /usr/sbin/alternatives --install /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so \ libjavaplugin.so /usr/java/default/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so 20000 </bash>
Now, if you want java, you also want Java Web start
<bash> $ sudo /usr/sbin/alternatives --install /usr/bin/javaws javaws /usr/java/default/bin/javaws 20000 </bash>
You can check the default Java version by typing
<bash> java -version </bash>
on the command-line.