Monday, June 28, 2004 - Posts

Installing Firefox 0.9 for Linux

This is what appears you when you start to install Mozilla Firefox 0.9 under Linux...

Maybe the ghost of Windows is on the air? Wonderful!!

How to run Fedora Core 2 on VMWare

Yesterday I wrote this post on my troubles during the installation of Fedora Core 2 under Virtual PC or VMWare.

Today I've retryed the installation under VMWare that failed yesterday for a X-Server loading error... I've checked the error log reported by the X-Server crash and I've see that the problem is caused by the fact that during the installation under VMWare the depth color is set to 16.

What you've to do to complete the Fedora Core 2 installation under VMWare is this:

  • at the login prompt after the X-Server crash, login as root
  • use vi (or similar) to edit the X-Server configuration file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf )
  • go to the "Screen" section, search the line DefaultDepth 16 and change the value to DefaultDepth 24.
  • save the xorg.conf file and restart all (just type reboot). Magically, Fedora Core 2 starts!

Wonderful... now I've my Fedora Core 2 Virtual Machine that runs under my Windows XP.