Quick question (FC3 download)

Vikings

If I download this: http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/iso/FC3-i386-DVD.iso

from here: http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/iso/ (:P)

And burn that to DVD, will that be all I need to install FC3 onto my laptop (will be formatted).

Thanks.

Fenster

Yup,

By a bizzare coincidence, this is also the board you come to for help when nothing works after said installation.

Vikings

Thanks for the reply, 12% through the download ... just under three hours to go.

I should be back in 4 or 5 hours looking for help then!

Vikings

Ok just got back from pool ... all downloaded so I have 2 more questions.

1.) Do i burn it straight to DVD as in drag and drop using windows or do i need to use nero and do something to it?

and

2.) Do i have to format laptop first and then try install it or is it like xp in installation where it gives you the option to format during "installation".

Thanks

aidan_walsh

Burn using a package like Nero.

You'll be given the option to not only format, but also partition. If you want to use the entire drive, i.e. no Windows, then allow the installer to do the work for you. Other than that, you'll have to manually give space to the partition you want to install to, and the swap partition.

Vikings

Is there any easy to use guides out there that will help me out here, im browsing http://forums.fedoraforum.org/ at the moment.

I burned the iso using nero and put it in laptop, restarted and tried to boot from the dvd but its not having it at all.

aidan_walsh

Did you use the "Burn Image" option, or burn the file to the disk? BEcause that happened to me once, way back when...

Failing that, you might need to check your bios to make sure that the DVD drive is the first in the boot order.

Vikings

I've made sure the dvd drive is 1st in line.

I'm not too sure what i did with nero ... im not the best with it.

Ill try walk through what I did and post it.

I just dragged the file into the MY_DISC box in nero and hit the Burns Current Compilation button.

aidan_walsh

You have Nero 6? GO to Recorder -> Burn Image, select the ISO and burn.

Vikings

Yep its version 6. Burning now and will let you know how I get on in about 10 mins

Thanks for the help ... id be lost without it!


edit: well its installing. Obviously it was the whole image burning thing that got me. Its just "checking" the dvd now.

Vikings

Got it installed ok last night but needed sleep by then.

Went to use it today and its only letting me use 800x600 as resolution because its an unknown monitor or something like that - being a laptop, has anyone any ideas to solve this?

I cant live in 800x600!

Fenster

Run system-config-display in a terminal and then set your monitor to a "Generic 1024x768 LCD panel"

FC3 has problems picking up laptop displays on its own.

Vikings

Think I got it now - just rebooting.

Vikings

Well I selected the generic 1024x768 LCD display but when I try change the resolution to that, it sort of "tiles" the display and gives me bad graphics glitches when i move the mouse.

Vikings

This thing is nothing but problems! Maybe its not for me afterall.

The cdplayer that came with it default will not play any music for me. the /dev/cdrom path gets me a "Drive Error" and i've tried 101 different paths to play a cd but no luck.

Still cant get the resolution right either

Vikings

Im thinking of scrapping all of this fedora and going with Ark.

Anyone have any experiences with Ark, good or bad?

Fenster

First off, DON'T PANIC!.

Installing Linux on a laptop always requires lots of fiddling, to get it working.

First off, for your display problem. system-config-display simply acts a a graphical front-end for the xorg.conf file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf). Like I said above, Fedora (and other distros) are finicky in general about picking up laptop displays. Let me know what graphics card you use and I'll post my own xorg.conf when I get home from work.


For the CD, Fedora 4 has a really annoying method of handling them. The CD-ROM drive is located at /dev/hdc. Most distros symlink this to /dev/cdrom for convenience, but for their own reasons, the developers of FC3 don't. Instead they use udev to handle automatically mounting and unmounting. CD/DVDs are mounted to /media/cdrom, rather than /mnt, as you'd expect, which is the really annoying thing I mentioned.

You can manually create a symlink by entering this as root:

ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom

You can edit /etc/fstab to change the mountpoint of /dev/hdc and direct it to wherever.

Vikings

Its a radeon ati mobility 9000. Think I understood that post will try what you suggested now.

/etc/fstab is read only and i cant edit it?

Fenster

# XFree86 4 configuration created by pyxf86config

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "Default Layout"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"

	RgbPath      "/usr/lib/X11/rgb"
	ModulePath	"/usr/lib/modules"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/TYPE1"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/CID"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/sharefonts"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/freefonts"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/corefonts"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/artwiz"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/terminus"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/unifont"
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load  "dbe"
	Load  "extmod"
	Load  "fbdevhw"
	Load  "record"
	Load  "glx"
	Load  "freetype"
	Load  "type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
	Option	"XkbModel" "pc105"
	Option	"XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Mouse0"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	"Protocol" "IMPS/2"
	Option	"Device" "/dev/input/mice"
	Option	"ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
	Option	"Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"USBMouse"
	Driver		"mouse"
	Option		"Protocol"	"ExplorerPS/2"
	Option		"Device"	"/dev/usbmouse"
	Option		"Emulate3Buttons"	"false"
	Option		"ZAxisMapping"	"4 5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
	ModelName    "LCD Panel 1024x768"
	DisplaySize  340	270
	HorizSync    31.5 - 67.0
	VertRefresh  50.0 - 75.0
	Option	 "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Videocard0"
	Driver      "vesa"
	VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
	BoardName   "NVIDIA GeForce FX (generic)"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Videocard0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     16
		Modes    "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
		Modes    "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

That's my xorg.conf, from my laptop, with a Radeon card and a two button mouse with scrollwheel. Its considered working, as I've used it in three distros with minor changes.

eggshapedfred

might be no harm looking at this site...

Syth

IncredibleBulk wrote:

Its a radeon ati mobility 9000. Think I understood that post will try what you suggested now.

/etc/fstab is read only and i cant edit it?

Make sure you're logged in as root to chenge /etc/fstab. You'll need to be logged in a root to do just about any system configuring. You should log in as a normal user for everything else though.