Installing Planet CCRMA Fedora Core 1

If you read the Fedora Core 3 log on my site, you'll notice it sort of got abandoned. That's cuz I came across Planet CCRMA!

I decided to start clean, and I installed Planet CCRMA Fedora Core 1, per the directions on their site. First off, I'm typing this about a week after doing the install. I forgot a lot of the details, but suffice to say, I was able to get the low-latency CCRMA kernel running, and all that. Basically, if you follow the instructions on their site, read them over and over and over and over, and keep at it, you'll get it.

One caveat: I downloaded the ISOs from their site. The MD5SUMs came out perfect. I burned the CDs, and during the FC1 installation, it failed. I reburnt that CD at different speeds, DAO, TAO, all that. Fail, fail fail!

I re-downloaded the ISOs, and realized that was a waste, since the MD5SUMs were good.

Anyway, here is what I did: I downloaded the ISOs on a different Linux box of mine, and copied the ISOs to a removable hard drive. I mount all of my hard drives in removable shuttles for just this purpose, and boy was it the bomb!

(side note: Since I'm using removable shuttles for the drives, the "other" Linux box could very well be the same PC! Very convenient, I say.)

So, I stick two drives into the to-be-new PC; the first one is a big blank drive that Linux will get installed on. The second one is the one I copied the ISOs to.

I drop in the admittedly bad Planet CCRMA version of the Fedora Core 1 CD in the soon-to-be-new PC, and fire it up. Once the
CD boots up, I hit F2 to get to the Options menu. One of the options is to install Linux from a hard disk, and I pick that one.

For the install, I go with all the defaults, and install the "Desktop Workstation" package.

The install starts, and since everything is on a disk, there isn't any of that "Install Disc 2" stuff anymore. Sweet.

So this time, the install is a success. Amen!