Obersvations after installing FC4t3

[Truls Gulbrandsen]

Jeffrey D. Yuille wrote:
> Truls Gulbrandsen wrote:
> 
>> Hi there,
>> after a complete installation of FC4t3 I have the following observations:
>>
>> I downloaded the DVD-iso and burne to a DVD-RW.  No problem and media 
>> check resultet in PASS.
>>
>> I optet for a manual partitioning as I wanted to keep the /home 
>> partition and only reinstall the OS.  What I find cumbersome is that 
>> the system don't specify the which partition that used to be /boot, 
>> /home or /.  The only clue is to the swap partition.  Well the 
>> learning is to document the original size of each partition before 
>> reinstalling in order tell which is which.
>>
>> Then, after first boot my system was named [truls@ host"-ip-address"]. 
>> However, after yum update and reboot this was back to normal 
>> [truls at localhost ~].
>>
>> When checkin my network configuration I find that my wireless is 
>> configured as eth1 ethernet.  It should have been eth1 wireless. I 
>> have to delete this device and recreate it as wireless to get access 
>> to the wireless variables.
>>
>> All the OOo icons on the quick-start menue was replaced by a "?" after 
>> the yum update and I had to go to "properties" and set correct icons.
>>
>> My setup is on a IBM TP T30 and so far everything works perfectly 
>> after above ajustments.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Truls
> 
> 
>     Hello,
> 
>      Your observations are interesting because I installed FC4T3 on an 
> IBM ThinkPad T-30 as well.  The installation went well except for one 
> thing: I do not seem able to be able to obtain any audio streaming and I 
> am not able to download any music through LimeWire.  In LimeWire, I 
> continue to get the message that "it seems that there is no connection 
> to the internet".  This may be the same problem that I am having with 
> audio streaming as well. I also have FC3 installed on another laptop and 
> am able to do audio streaming and download music from the same sources.  
> I am able to connect wirelessly through the internet, though.  I am not 
> sure if anyone else is having this problem nor do I know if I should 
> report this problem in Bugzilla.

I found that, even though my network device showed active, I was still 
not connected to the internet.  I solved this by doing a "deactivate" 
then "activate".

Truls
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