This section provides notes that are specific to the supported hardware architectures of Fedora Core.
This section covers any specific information you may need to know about Fedora Core and the PPC hardware platform.
This section lists the minimum PowerPC (PPC) hardware needed to install Fedora Core 4.
Minimum: PowerPC G3 / POWER4
Fedora Core 5 supports only the “New World” generation of Apple Power Macintosh, shipped circa 1999 onwards.
Fedora Core also supports IBM eServer pSeries, IBM RS/6000 and Genesi Pegasos II machines.
Recommended for text-mode: 233 MHz G3 or better, 64MiB RAM.
Recommended for graphical: 400 MHz G3 or better, 128MiB RAM.
The DVD or first CD of the installation set of Fedora Core is set
to be bootable on supported hardware. In addition, bootable
CD images can be found in the images/
directory of the DVD or first CD. These images behave
differently depending on the hardware:
Apple Macintosh
The bootloader should automatically boot the
appropriate 32-bit or 64-bit installer. Power management
support, including sleep and backlight level management,
is present in the apmud package, which is in Fedora Extras. Fedora Extras
for Fedora Core is configured by default for
yum. Following installation,
apmud can be installed by running
yum install apmud.
64-bit IBM eServer pSeries (POWER4/POWER5)
After using OpenFirmware to boot the CD, the
bootloader (yaboot) should
automatically boot the 64-bit installer.
32-bit CHRP (IBM RS/6000 and others)
After using OpenFirmware to boot the CD, select the
linux32 boot image at the
boot: prompt to start the 32-bit
installer. Otherwise, the 64-bit installer is
started, which does not work.
Genesi Pegasos II
At the time of writing, firmware with full support for ISO9660 file systems is not yet released for the Pegasos. However, the network boot image can be used. At the OpenFirmware prompt, enter the command:
boot cd: /images/netboot/ppc32.img
You will also need to configure OpenFirmware on the
Pegasos manually to make the installed Fedora Core system
bootable. To do this, you need to set the
boot-device and boot-file
environment variables appropriately.
Network booting
There are combined images containing the installer
kernel and ramdisk in the
images/netboot/ directory of the
install tree. These are intended for network booting with
TFTP, but can be used in many ways.
yaboot supports tftp booting for
IBM eServer pSeries and Apple Macintosh, the use of
yaboot is encouraged over the netboot
images.
This section covers any specific information you may need to know about Fedora Core and the x86 hardware platform.
The following information represents the minimum hardware requirements necessary to successfully install Fedora Core 5 test2.
The compatibility/availability of other hardware components (such as video and network cards) may be required for specific installation modes and/or post-installation usage.
This section lists the CPU specifications required by Fedora Core 5 test2.
The following CPU specifications are stated in terms of Intel processors. Other processors (notably, offerings from AMD, Cyrix, and VIA) that are compatible with and equivalent to the following Intel processors may also be used with Fedora Core.
Minimum: Pentium-class — Fedora Core 5 test2 is optimized for Pentium 4 CPUs, but also supports earlier CPUs (such as Pentium, Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, and including AMD and VIA variants). This approach has been taken because Pentium-class optimizations actually result in reduced performance for non-Pentium-class processors, and Pentium 4 scheduling is sufficiently different (while making up the bulk of today's processors) to warrant this change.
Recommended for text-mode: 200 MHz Pentium-class or better
Recommended for graphical: 400 MHz Pentium II or better
AMD64 processors (both Athlon64 and Opteron)
Intel processors with Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology (Intel EM64T)
This section covers any specific information you may need to know about Fedora Core and the x86_64 hardware platform.
The following information represents the minimum hardware requirements necessary to successfully install Fedora Core 5 test2.
The compatibility/availability of other hardware components (such as video and network cards) may be required for specific installation modes and/or post-installation usage.
This section lists the memory required to install Fedora Core 5 test2.
This list is for 64-bit x86_64 systems:
Minimum for text-mode: 128MB
Minimum for graphical: 256MB
Recommended for graphical: 512MB
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