installing Fedora 9 on a laptop...

[Jim]

Mike Chalmers wrote:
> I am am going to install F9, when it comes out, on a Toshiba Satellite
> U205-S5034. I had a few questions that I was hoping y'all could
> answer.
>
> - Will Fedora automatically install drivers for the touchpad at the
> beginning of the installation so that I can use it as a mouse during
> the installation?
>
>   
You Should have no problems with mouse, keyboard
> - Should the touchpad work fine?
>   
Yes !
> - Do I need to do anything about installing wireless drivers so that I
> can get internet access, or will Fedora take care of this for me?
>
>   
That depends on what wireless card you have, Wireless drivers are the 
biggest problem for Linux, What wireless adapter do you have ?  do a 
live cd first and do from a "terminal" do a /sbin/lspci -v and you can 
see what hardware you have.
Post your Wireless card make,model, Copy and paste the contents of your 
wirless card from /sbin/lspci -v
> - Does Fedora work with the Toshiba Satellite U205-S5034 good?
>
>   
I think toshiba is somewhat of a problem for linux, Toshiba doesn't 
support Linux, they are strictly $Windows.
> - With Fedora 9 can I resize my Windows NTFS partition during the
>   
You can download "Gparted" off the internet and burn a iso image and 
that will do your resizing in NTFS.
Do a google on "Gparted Download" and that will tell you where an howto 
download.
Be sure you do a "Defragmentation" on WindowsXP before resizing.
> Fedora installation?
>
> Many Thanks,
>
>