Install FC6 on Sony Vaio Picture Book PCG-C1MGP

Some guidance to save you from trouble with the installation…

1.) You have to use TWO cdrom’s: The one from SONY (this fucked up thing with the PCMCIA-Card) and a normal USB-CDROM

2.) Boot Install CD 1 with the SONY-CDROM

3.) When the installation complains that the Install-Medium wasn’t found remove the CD from the SONY and put it in the USB-CDROM

4.) When you are in the Anaconda Installer hit CTRL-ALT-F2 to get a console

5.) change i686 to i586 in /etc/rpm/platform (otherwise the installation fails with: “incorrect arch” during package installation

6.) Continue as normal…

7.) Firstboot hangs at the License-Agreement. Before it hangs (at the welcome screen) restart the X server (with CTRL-ALT-Backspace) to get a prompt and uninstall firstboot /rpm -e firstboot)

8.) Add a user manually with “useradd sysop; passwd sysop”

9.) remove the RedHatGraphicalBoot “rpm -e rhgb”

10.) continue as normal…

HTH

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