New Fedora Install
Caleb Rodriguez
calebsr2k at acm.org
Sat Dec 27 13:57:22 UTC 2003
On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 01:46, Krikket wrote:
> Follow-up to myself, to add clarifty of remaining questions, and an answer
> or two...
>
> On Thu, 25 Dec 2003, Krikket wrote:
>
> > I've been happy enough with the Fedora install on my laptop, that I went
> > ahead and installed it on my desktop, overwriting SuSE.
> >
> > Only I made a goof, and the system isn't recognizing everything.
> >
> > 1> I mistakenly told it to only install only on /hda. So right now /hdb
> > is sitting vacant, and pretty much inaccessable. Is there some
> > partitioning/formatting tool out there that I can use to
> > reformat/partition and then mount the harddrive?
>
Have you tried QTparted? It can be found on the Mephis distro.
Hope that helps?
> Still searching for this one...
>
> > 2> I have a CD-RW/DVD combo drive in my system. As far as I can tell,
> > Fedora is only recognizing it as a CD-ROM drive. How can I hit the OS
> > over the head with a clue-bat, to get full functionality out of my system?
>
> The answer was to type "ln -s /dev/dvd /dev/scd0" (Or was it the other
> way around?)
>
> > 3> Xine appears to be unable to produce a smooth picture when playing
> > VCDs. (I obviously haven't gotten DVDs going yet.) From SuSE I seem to
> > remember having to shut off DMA mode, but I'll be damned if I know how to
> > do it with Fedora. Suggestions?
>
> DVDs are working, along with VCDs -- as long as I don't put xine in
> full-screen mode. Then the system can no longer keep up, and the entire
> thing hoarks. The only way out is to switch to the console, log in again,
> and kill the xine process.
>
> I still need some help in fixing this one. Suggestions?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Krikket
>
>
>
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