Installing Fedora Core

Overview

This page describes how to install Fedora Core on the One Laptop hardware. As of the writing of this document, the test-A boards have been built and distributed to quite a few people. Fedora Core does run on the hardware, with some minor changes. We'll walk you through how to make those changes.

Requirements

Hardware

You will need a few pieces of hardware to install the software on the Laptop board.

• 1 test-A or pre-test-A OLPC board
• 1 USB hub
• 1 USB flash drive
• 1 USB hard drive
• 1 USB ethernet adapter
• 1 external VGA-compatible monitor for display
• 1 USB keyboard
• 1 USB mouse

Software

Right now, you need to use the Rawhide (unstable) version of Fedora Core to install on the laptop. We will be putting our kernel changes, dependency and software changes into FC Rawhide. So our current requirements for the software include:

• A recent rawhide snapshot (we provide some known good snapshots)
• A place to host that snapshot on the network
• The serenity to accept that sometimes Rawhide is broken
• A strong will to live

Download

• Notes here about which versions to download

Getting Ready to Install

• copy the bootdisk.img to the flash drive
• boot on that drive

Installing

• linux text
• point it at an http repo
• install the minimal system?

Fixing post-install

• After the install fix the bootdisk (rescue)
• take apart the initrd
• fix up the usb modules and sleep
• put it all back together
• make sure the initrd is rebuild

Common Errors

• "invalid file system" on boot
• kernel panic on boot