Installing FC1 on my new Dell 4600
Posted by creining | Filed under Linux/BSD
I received my new Dell Dimension 4600 this week. I had been looking to replace my creaky Celeron 500MHz desktop machine that I cobbled together during my junior year of college and has been my main system since then. The Celeron had 312 MB 133MHz memory, an Ensoniq sound card, a Voodoo3 3000 16MB videocard, a Mitsumi 2x4x8 CD-RW and a 24x CDROM, and a power supply that was starting to fail (frankly, the last straw). My new Dell is a P4 2.8GHz with 512MB 333MHz DDR SDRAM and has the 80G drive that came with it and an 80G drive that was in my old desktop (note: the Dimension 2400 does not have a second drive cage) and integrated sound, video (note: the Dimension 4600 has an 8x AGP slot, the 2400 does not), ethernet all based on the Intel i810 chipset. I’ve installed Fedora Core 1 on the Dell and everything has gone smoothly. I especially like yum for updating packages. I configured the yum.conf file to point to fast Fedora EDU mirrors and added FreshRPMs and Dag APT repositories. So far, I’ve been able to install every package I’ve wanted to via yum.
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