Howto to install FedoraCore 4 64bit on a server

Einstein · Unread post by **Einstein** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 4:27 am

Did anyone know where I could find a howto to install FedoraCore 4 64bit on a server? I have FedoraCore 3 on it whith plesk 8. The autoinstaller from plesk dosent work with the 64 bit version.

Thank you for your try to helping me. Sorry for my bad english.

breun · Unread post by **breun** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 6:29 am

There is a special FC4 64 bit autoinstaller available at http://www.swsoft.com/en/download/plesk8/

Einstein · Unread post by **Einstein** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 7:28 am

Yes but my problem is that it doesn't work. What do I have to do?

breun · Unread post by **breun** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 7:34 am

What exactly "doesn't work"? Does it give you an error?

Einstein · Unread post by **Einstein** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 7:37 am

My problem is that if I will use the autoinstaller it says that I couldn't work with binary files. I think I have to install it from the rescure console but I think that is to hard for me.

breun · Unread post by **breun** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 7:51 am

I don't really understand the problem you are having. Can you tell what you did exactly and what the exact error message you're getting is.

Einstein · Unread post by **Einstein** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 7:55 am

The system I am now running is SUSE 10 with Plesk 8. But I will install FC4 64 bit. So in download the autoinstaller. But when i will start the autoinstaller the massage "cannot execute binary file" is displayed.

breun · Unread post by **breun** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 8:13 am

If the system is currently running SuSE 10 you clearly can't use the FC4 64 bit Plesk autoinstaller. You can only use that on a clean FC4 64 bit installation, not on another operating system (or even on another version of the same operating system).

So, first do a minimal install of FC4 64 bit, then download and use the FC4 64 bit Plesk autoinstaller.

Einstein · Unread post by **Einstein** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 8:17 am

That is my problem my hoster haven't a file and I do not know how I could install a minimal version from FC4 64. Thank you for helping me.

breun · Unread post by **breun** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 8:24 am

If you don't have physical access to your own server and your provider won't install another OS for you you don't really have much choice. You could take a look at Scott's Atomic Offline OS Installer script, but that performs a minimal CentOS 4 installation, instead of FC4 64 bit.

Maybe you can adapt the script to install FC4 64 bit, but I'm afraid that if you don't have a test environment you're pretty likely to screw things up. If you really need FC4 64 bit you could always go and look for another provider that does offer a FC4 64 bit image.

Unread post by **scott** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 9:40 am

I could make a version to install CentOS 4 - 64. Whats weird is that they didnt do a torrent for CentOS 4.4's Server CD's. I'd hate to have to make it pull the ISO over HTTP.

Besides, FC4 is now in Fedora Legacy, so its only got about a year left before its EOL'd.

Einstein · Unread post by **Einstein** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 5:25 am

Yes that is right. But in the moment Plesk only works with version 4.

breun · Unread post by **breun** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 6:51 am

Don't get me wrong, I like Fedora Core (I run FC5 on my workstation, will upgrade to FC6 when it's released this week), but for setting up a server that you don't want to do OS upgrades on too often, you're probably better off with another OS than Fedora. By the time a Fedora Core version is supported by Plesk it's already almost EOL'd. Personally I use CentOS for servers, as CentOS just has a much longer life cycle.