Fedora

Install from live cd without burning it to cd:-

1. Mount downloaded iso.

2. Copy all content in the iso to the root of the device that need to be booted.

3. Change all reference in /EFI/boot/grub.conf and syslinux.cfg to point root device to the UUID of the partition that we want to boot. Use blkid to get UUID.

4. Add entry to /boot/grub/menu.lst and point the kernel and initrd to /EFI/boot/vmlinuz0 and /EFI/boot/initrd0.img. Root device to pass is the UUID of the partition we want to boot.

Notes:-

• If the boot device is home partition, make sure to copy iso content to the root of the partition, not to /home/userdir or something.

• Need to use UUID for root device, otherwise would get error `/dev/sdaX already mounted'.

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=191888

Post installation

Trackpoint

# cat - >> /etc/rc.d/rc.local
echo -n 255 > /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/sensitivity 
echo -n 200 > /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/speed

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_configure_the_TrackPoint#configure-trackpoint

YUM

$ wget -O timemirrorbandwidth.py "http://fedorapeople.org/gitweb?p=izhar/public_git/hack-patches.git;a=blob_plain;f=yum-plugin-timemirrorbandwidth/timemirrorbandwidth.py"
# mv timemirrorbandwidth.py /usr/lib/yum-plugins/
# cat - >> /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/timemirrorbandwidth.conf
[main]
enabled=1
^D
# yum time-mirrors --disableplugin=fastestmirror

http://blog.kagesenshi.org/2010/12/yum-plugin-timemirrorbandwidth.html

Use -C to avoid refreshing the metadata cache.

$ yum -C search burner

Flash

$ wget "http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/completion/?installer=Flash_Player_10.1_for_Linux_%28YUM%29"
# rpm -ivh adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
# rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux
# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/adobe-linux-i386.repo 
[adobe-linux-i386]
name=Adobe Systems Incorporated
baseurl=http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/i386/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux
# yum install nspluginwrapper alsa-plugins-pulseaudio flash-plugin

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flash#On_32-bit_Fedora

Google Chrome

$ sudo yum install redhat-lsb.i686