Fedora

Fedora is an operating system based on the Linux kernel, developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and owned by Red Hat.

Installation on Lenovo Thinkpad L440 - Virtualbox

• VirtualBox

• Name Fedora18
• Linux
• Fedora (64 bit)
• next
• 4GB RAM
• create virtual hard drive
• create , VDI, next , Fixed disk size: 8GB, create
• Change to 2 CPUs and 128 video memory
• Start
• Choose ISO
• Start Fedora 18
• Live User System , * Ctrl + f
• Install to hard disk
• Language english
• continue
• keyboard, +, portugese (portuguese)
• Add
• Remove english keyboard
• done
• Date and time, region europe, city Lisbon, Done

• Installation destination, ATA VBOX HardDisk, done

• Begin installation
• Root password: ********
• confirm, done, quit
• Live System User, Power off, restart

Setup system

• Welcome
• Forward, forward, create user vitor, password: ********, Finish
• Sign in vitor
• Activities, terminal, su, cat /etc/redhat_release
• yum install kernel-devel-3.6.10-4.fc18.i686
• yum install java-1.7.0-openjdk java-1.7.0-openjdk-devel
• yum update
• yum install gcc
• ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run # after mounting the guest additions with virtualbox

Disk resize

• Fedora 18 VM, settings, storage, controller SATA, add hard disk

• create new disk, VDI, next, dynamic allocation, Fedora18Disk2, 8GB, create

• cfdisk /dev/sdb
• new, primary, type 8e (Linux LVM), write, quit
• fdisk -l
• pvcreate /dev/sdb1
• vgdisplay
• vgextend fedora /dev/sdb1
• pvscan
• lvdisplay
• lvextend /dev/fedora/root /dev/sdb1
• vgdisplay
• resize2fs /dev/fedora/root

Setup resolution

• VBoxManage setextradata "Fedora 18" "CustomVideoMode1" "1366x768x32"

• vi /etc/default/grub

GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="$(sed 's, release .*$,,g' /etc/system-release)"
GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rd.lvm.lv=fedora/swap rd.md=0 rd.dm=0 $([ -x /usr/sbin/rhcrashkernel-param ] && /usr/sbin/rhcrashkernel-param || :) vconsole.keymap=pt-latin1 rd.luks=0 rd.lvm.lv=fedora/root rhgb quiet "
GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"
GRUB_THEME="/boot/grub2/themes/system/theme.txt"
GRUB_GFXMODE=1366x768
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=1366x768

• vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-screen.conf

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier  "My Monitor"
    HorizSync   31.5 - 50.0
    VertRefresh 40-90
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "VESA Framebuffer"
    Driver      "vesa"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier  "Screen 1"
    Device      "VESA Framebuffer"
    Monitor     "My Monitor"
   DefaultDepth 24
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       8
        Modes "1366x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubsection
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       16
        Modes "1366x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubsection
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes "1366x768"  "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubsection
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       32
        Modes "1366x768"  "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubsection
EndSection

• grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

Other software

• yum update
• yum install qt qt-x11 qt-webkit

Get skype-4.3.0.37-fedora.i586.rpm

• rpm -i skype-4.3.0.37-fedora.i586.rpm
• yum install eclipse jboss-as mysql wget #jboss as 7.1