Linux Tutorial Fedora Core and Red Hat Linux CD Installation, Version Upgrade, Configuration and Basic Administration. Configuration options. You have two choices, a single Operating System OS or a multi boot system. Many desktop users like to run Linux in addition to Windows on an. PC. An additional hard drive may be used for Linux or an. Linux. may also reside as the only operating system on the computer as. Using a separate drive for. Linux is the easiest and the preferred multi boot configuration because it allows the original Windows drive to remain intact. Bugzilla Installation On Red Hat Linux Free' title='Bugzilla Installation On Red Hat Linux Free' />Another dual boot system option is to install the Linux boot loader on a floppy or CD. See the Yo. Linux. The boot process will be controlled by the MSWindows boot loader. In order to boot the Linux drive, insert the floppy or CD with the Linux boot loader Lilo or Grub and boot from the floppy or CD. The Linux boot loader can be installed on the MBR of the floppy. Note Re partitioning a drive will destroy. The Red Hat CD ROM includes the repartitioning tool fips in. See dosutilsfipsdocs. This tool is. unsupported. Partition Magic would be a wiser choice for those. For dual boot installations, MSWindows can be. Microsoft installer to repartition the drive. Bugzilla Installation On Red Hat Linux Free' title='Bugzilla Installation On Red Hat Linux Free' />For those creating a dual boot system with Microsoft Windows and versions. Fedora Core or Red Hat Linux 89 with the GRUB boot loader, install. Windows first and then let the Linux installation handle the dual boot. Its that easy. Details When creating a dual boot system with Windows NT or Windows 2. NT. loader resides on the Master Boot Record MBR. Upon boot up, the NT loader. Grub to boot Linux. Lilo is the older Linux boot loader. Red Hat 7. 2 introduced Grub as the default. 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The advantage of compiled 6. This information should also be true for the Intel EM6. T architecture. Documentation on the Installation CD. Online manuals can be read from the Linux. CD ROM by any operating system. From Windows you can look. Linux CD and open the files with a web browser. Fedora Core 1 6. Release notes are on the first CD. For documentation see http docs. RH 8. 0, 9. 0. Documentation is contained on a CD separate from the 3 installation CDs. RH 7. 2 Red Hat 7. Documentation is held on. CD with the same paths and files If you substitute 7. CDROM RH DOCSrhl cg en 7. Red Hat Configuration Guide RAID, Samba, Printers, Linuxconf, PGP. Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux EPEL Welcome to the home of the EPEL Special Interest Group. What is Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux or EPEL For your security, if youre on a public computer and have finished using your Red Hat services, please be sure to log out. Log Out. 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It would be wise to make a backup of anything important that. The Linux installation has the option of installing one of the operating. Lilo or GRUB. GRUB was introduced as the default Linux boot. Red Hat 7. 2. The boot loader allows one to boot one or more. In the case of Windows NT or variants. Microsoft boot loader is used to launch the Linux boot loader which will. Linux. As a precaution, it would be. Master Boot Record. DOS recovery disk From DOS create a floppy. C FORMAT U A S. C COPY C DOSFDISK. EXE A. C COPY C DOSFORMAT. COM A. C COPY C DOSMSD. EXE A. This creates a boot floppy with some rescue tools. To restore a Master Boot Record, boot the PC from the floppy and. A FDISK MBR C. Win 2. NT boot from CD and enter Recovery Console. Win XP boot from CD and enter Recovery Console. Explanation of MBR The Master Boot Record is on a sector of. It is. separate. Upon booting, the system reads the MBR first. This. points the computer to the portion of the disk where the operating. OS is loaded from there. When running a. dual boot system, LILO or Grub in the MBR can point to more than one. Windows 9. 5 recovery diskette To create a windows start up. Start Settings Control Panel. AddRemove Programs then select the Startup Disk tab. This. may require your Windows 9. CD ROM. Red Hat re install on an existing system Save configuration info. Configuration files are held in the directory etc. Save a backup. or hard copy of the conf files you need to re configure your system. The command ls lrt will list files in a reverse time ordered fashion. EPEL Fedora Project Wiki. Welcome to the home of the EPEL Special Interest Group. Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux or EPEL is a Fedora Special Interest Group that creates, maintains, and manages a high quality set of additional packages for Enterprise Linux, including, but not limited to, Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL, Cent. OS and Scientific Linux SL, Oracle Linux OL. EPEL packages are usually based on their Fedora counterparts and will never conflict with or replace packages in the base Enterprise Linux distributions. EPEL uses much of the same infrastructure as Fedora, including buildsystem, bugzilla instance, updates manager, mirror manager and more. Learn more about EPEL in the following pages. What packages and versions are available in EPELYou can take a look on any of the available EPEL mirrors from our mirror list. Alternately, you can browse the package set. END OF LIFE RELEASESTHESE ARE NO LONGER SUPPORTEDEPEL has an epel release package that includes gpg keys for package signing and repository information. Installing this package for your Enterprise Linux version should allow you to use normal tools such as yum to install packages and their dependencies. By default the stable EPEL repo is enabled, there is also a epel testing repository that contains packages that are not yet deemed stable. NOTE for RHN users. You need to also enable the optional repository to use EPEL packages as they depend on packages in that repository. This can be done by enabling the RHEL optional subchannel for RHN Classic. For certificate based subscriptions see Red Hat Subscription Management Guide. For EPEL 7, in addition to the optional repository rhel 7 server optional rpms, you also need to enable the extras repository rhel 7 server extras rpms. NOTE for Cent. OS users. You can install EPEL by running yum install epel release. The package is included in the Cent. OS Extras repository, enabled by default. If you are running an EL7 version, please visit here to get the newest epel release package for EL7 The newest version of epel release for EL7. If you are running an EL6 version, please visit here to get the newest epel release package for EL6 The newest version of epel release for EL6. EPEL for EL5 is no longer supported. If you are running EL5, please upgrade your operating system to either EL6 or EL7. You can verify these packages and their keys from the Fedora projects keys page https fedoraproject. Can I rely on these packages The EPEL project strives to provide packages with both high quality and stability. However, EPEL is maintained by a community of people who generally volunteer their time and no commercial support is provided. It is the nature of such a project that packages will come and go from the EPEL repositories over the course of a single release. In addition, it is possible that occasionally an incompatible update will be released such that administrator action is required. By policy these are announced in advance in order to give administrators time to test and provide suggestions. It is strongly recommended that if you make use of EPEL, and especially if you rely upon it, that you subscribe to the epel announce list. Traffic on this list is kept to a minimum needed to notify administrators of important updates. History and background of the project. Private Investigator License Bucks County Pa there. The EPEL project was born when Fedora maintainers realized that the same infrastructure that builds and maintains packages for Fedora would be great to also maintain add on packages for Enterprise Linux. Much of the early need was driven by what Fedora infrastructure needed on the RHEL machines that built and maintained Fedora. From there things have grown to a large collection of varied packages. See our history and Philosophy page for more information. How can I contribute The EPEL SIG is always looking for interested folks to help out. We always need package maintainers, qatesters, bug triagers, marketing and documentation writers. Please see our Joining EPEL page for more information on how to join the SIG. Communicating with the EPEL SIGThere are many ways to communicate with the EPEL SIG and its members. The epel IRC channel on irc. EPEL users and developers. The epel devel is for general developer and SIG discussion. The epel announce mailing list is a low volume mailing list for only important announcements. The epel package announce list is a list that gets information about package updates as they happen in the stable repository.