Installing Fedora 9 (Sulphur) in Virtual PC 2007

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Installing Fedora 9 (Sulphur) in Virtual PC 2007
Fedora 9 was released last week, which you can download here:
http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora.html
.  
What's new?  Highlights from the
release notes
include:

• 
  GNOME 2.22
  . GNOME now
  includes a webcam photo and video creation utility called
  Cheese, improved network filesystem support, a new
  international clock applet, Google Calendar support and custom email labels in
  Evolution, a new Remote Desktop Viewer, improved accessibility features, and
  PolicyKit integration.
  
• 
  KDE 4.0.3
  
• 
  Xfce 4.4.2
  
• 
  NetworkManager
  0.7
  provides improved mobile broadband support, including GSM and CDMA devices, and
  now supports multiple devices and ad-hoc networking for sharing connections.
  
• 
  The Fedora installer, Anaconda, now supports partition
  resizing for ext2/3, NTFS filesystems, creating and installing to encrypted file
  systems, improved Rescue Mode with FirstAidKit, independent locations for the
  second stage installer and the software packages. A redesigned, larger
  netboot.iso image now features a second stage installer partly for
  this reason.
  
• 
  PackageKit
  , a new set of graphical
  and console tools, with a framework for cross-distribution software management,
  has replaced Pirut in this release of Fedora. The
  PackageKit graphical updater is available instead of
  Pup. Behind PackageKit, the performance of
  yum has been significantly improved.
  
• 
  Ext4
  , the next version of the
  mature and stable ext3 filesystem is available as a option in this release. Ext4
  features better performance, higher storage capacity and several other new
  features.
  
• 
  This release of Fedora uses
  Upstart
  , an event-based
  replacement for the /sbin/init daemon.
  
• 
  Firefox 3 brings a number of major improvements including a native look and
  feel, desktop integration, the new Places replacement for bookmarks, and a
  re-worked address bar.
  
• 
  OpenOffice.org
  2.4,
  with many new features, is available as part of Fedora 9.
  
• 
  Fedora 9 features a 2.6.25 based kernel.
  
• 
  Kernel crashes can be more automatically reported to
  http://www.kerneloops.org/
  and diagnosed
  in a friendly way via the kerneloops package installed by default. Crash
  signatures are commonly referred to as oopses in Linux.
  
• 
  Work on the start-up and shutdown in X has yielded noticeable improvements.
  

Will this be the installation that "Just Works" out of the box?  Nope.  Same
problem that
Ubuntu 8.04
has within Virtual PC... "An unrecoverable
processor error has been encountered.  The virtual machine will reset now."  
Good times!


Fortunately, from our work with Ubuntu, we know the solution.  On the main
boot screen, hit [Tab] to edit the options. Add
noreplace-paravirt to the end of the boot parameters, and hit
enter.


There we go... Fedora is able to boot the kernel and start up anaconda.  The
problems I noted in my previous Fedora Posts (
Fedora Core 6
,
Fedora 7
, and
Fedora 8
)  of no mouse and messed up graphics seems to have
been fixed.  Very Nice!


Stepping through the installer options is relatively plain-jane, until you
get to the hard drive partitioning screen.  Is that an "Encrypt system" checkbox
I see?  Why, yes it is!  I am guessing that this is a Bitlocker-esque feature,
although I can't make heads or tails of how exactly this feature works on the
Fedora Encrypted Filesystem Support
page. Enabling the feature
is easy enough, you just check the box and enter a passphrase twice.  
Does it work with a TPM? Backup to a USB key? Escrow your key into your LDAP
directory for safekeeping?  Beats the heck out of me... I wasn't ever prompted
for anything relating to those safeguards.  I don't even know what encryption
algorithm it uses.


After hitting "Next" a few more times, Fedora finishes installing with no
problems.  After rebooting, however, unless you are SUPER-quick on the keyboard,
you will hit the unrecoverable processor error. You'll need to hit any key, and
then "a".  As before, add noreplace-paravirt to the end of the
boot parameters, and hit enter to continue booting.


As mentioned before, I chose the option to encrypt my boot drive.  The
screenshot below is the highly intuitive user interface asking me to enter my
passphrase.  What else could "Enter LUKS passphrase for /dev/sda2" possibly
mean?


Finally... the hallowed Fedora boot screen.  Looks pretty nice!


After a final few questions (creating user, re-confirming my time
preferences), I am asked to send my Hardware Profile to Fedora.  This is
actually a great idea!  Perhaps if enough people send a profile showing that
they are running on Virtual PC/Virtual Server, some of these silly bugs
requiring workarounds (such as Fedora 8 requiring "i8042.noloop" and Fedora 9
requiring "noreplace-paravirt") could be fixed before the OS releases.  Heck,
Virtual PC is free.  No incremental cost is involved in adding it to the test
matrix!


After logging into the desktop, and checked for updates.  A mere 5 days after
release, there are already 22 bug fixes and 4 security updates, including a
network-exploitable remote memory leak in the kernel.  Good times.


Looking around, it seems that I must have missed the option during the
initial install of the OS to include KDE, which I prefer to Gnome.  To be
honest, I have absolutely NO idea where to install KDE once Fedora is up and
running.  I went into Administration --> Add/Remove Software, but it finds no
software at all to install.  You would think it has something to do with the
Repository Sources, but my only options there are various Fedora ones. (Fedora 9
- i386, Updates, etc).  
According to the Software sources help, "At this time, PackageKit does not
offer a way to add new repositories to your system.  It only allows you to
enable or disable known repositories".
Oh well.  No KDE for me.






Other than that, Fedora seems quite plain-jane (as I mentioned earlier with
the installer).  The simplicity is nice, but nothing really stands out that
would make anyone want to switch from Vista (or Ubuntu, or Mac OS X).  I wonder
if this is a side effect of the fact that Red Hat is
leaving the desktop Linux business
.
One final reminder... to make sure that you do not have to enter the
noreplace-paravirt each time you boot up, go edit your
/etc/grub.conf file to add that parameter at the end of the line that looks
something like kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.25.3-18.fc9.i686 ro
root=dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet.  If you ever update your
kernel, you'll have to do it again.  Oh well... maybe Fedora 10 will fix this
issue.  I'll keep my fingers crossed...
Published Monday, May 19, 2008 4:10 AM by smearp
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