My laptop is a Dell Inspiron 1100 machine with 256MB memory with celeron 2Ghz processor. I have a 40GB harddisk 30GB of that is devoted to windows. 6.3GB is devoted to linux system and home directories 1GB is the swap space df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hdc5 6.3G 3.6G 2.4G 61% / none 125M 0 125M 0% /dev/shm /dev/hdc1 30G 12G 18G 40% /mnt/windows ======================================= Installation notes 1) After installation using FC2-test3 DVD, I did a update using the RHN up2date frontend. That brought the system up to date to FC2 regular. ACPI and sound is working right off the box. X is also working without any problem. However, the synaptic touchpad does not work right off. Its however easy to get it to work. Download the synaptics driver from http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/ tar zxvf synaptics-0.13.3.tar.bz2 cd synaptics-0.13.3/ make ; make install There are some changes that are required in xorg.conf file. Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "single head configuration" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Synaptics Mouse" "CorePointer" <== new line InputDevice "Mouse0" "AlwaysCore" <== changed InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection add the line Load "synaptics" to the "Module" section. Also add the section Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Synaptics Mouse" Driver "synaptics" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "Protocol" "auto-dev" Option "LeftEdge" "1700" Option "RightEdge" "5300" Option "TopEdge" "1700" Option "BottomEdge" "4200" Option "FingerLow" "25" Option "FingerHigh" "30" Option "MaxTapTime" "180" Option "MaxTapMove" "220" Option "VertScrollDelta" "100" Option "MinSpeed" "0.06" Option "MaxSpeed" "0.12" Option "AccelFactor" "0.0010" Option "SHMConfig" "on" # Option "Repeater" "/dev/ps2mouse" EndSection Restarting X after this I found that the touchpad works perfectly! ----------------------- 2) I next installed WinXP on the other partition. This rewrote the MBR. I used the following method to restore the MBR. I booted using the system-rescue cd. I then chroot to the /mnt/sysimage directory. At this state, if the boot loader used was lilo, just typing the command /sbin/lilo would have restrored the MBR back to pre-winXP state. However, its a bit tricy when the boot loader used is grub. My grub.conf file looks like # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg. # root (hd0,4) # kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hdc5 # initrd /boot/initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/hdc default=0 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd0,4)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Fedora Core (2.6.6-1.435) root (hd0,4) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.6-1.435 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.6-1.435.img title Fedora Core (2.6.5-1.327) root (hd0,4) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.327 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.5-1.327.img title CommercialOS rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 The root (hd0,4) indicates, its on the first hard-disk (hd0) but 5th partion (/dev/hdc5) The MBR was restored using the following steps /sbin/grub --config-gile=/etc/grub.conf Then in the grub prompt type grub> root (hd0,4) grub> setup (hd0) grub> quit This restores the MBR back to normal. ----------------------------------- Here is my fstab LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hdc1 /mnt/windows vfat user,owner,exec,dev,suid,rw,uid=500,gid=500,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hdc6 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 --------------------------------- 3) Installation of wine: I tried compiling wine from its sources. However, after about 2 hrs of compiling, the resulting executable crashed with a segmentation fault. I didn't understand what was wrong with this. I downloaded the pre-compiled rpm version for fedora core 1 and i installed it. This had the same disastrous effect. Search on google revealed that with kernel 2.6, wine had some problems. echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield allowed wine to run without any problems. When I installed wine from sources, it was able to detect the windows drive and set the config file accordingly. If there was no config file, one could use winecfg to create the config files. The current status of wine is with version wine-20040615-1fc1winehq.i686.rpm TMPENC works flawlessly. However, office still doesn't work. It loads it and then brings a window saying there is a problem and office will have to be restarted. ------------------------------------- 4) Flash plugin for mozilla Add the following to your /etc/yum.conf: [macromedia-flash-plugin] name=Macromedia Flash Plugin with redistribution limitations baseurl=http://macromedia.mplug.org/apt/fedora/$releasever Then: yum install flash-plugin -------------------------------------- 5) Set-up fedora for 'extra' packages These instructions are from http://fedoraguide.org/fc2/fc2beginnersguide.html Import RPM-GPG-KEY: rpm --import http://www.fedora.us/FEDORA-GPG-KEY rpm --import http://freshrpms.net/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.txt rpm --import http://dag.wieers.com/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt Append into the last line of /etc/yum.conf [freshrpms] name=Fedora Linux $releasever - $basearch - freshrpms baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/freshrpms/ gpgcheck=1 [dag] name=Dag RPM Repository for Fedora Core baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/dag/ gpgcheck=1 ------------------------------------- 6) Install java plugin for mozilla and mp3 capabilities, and a video player yum -y install mozilla-j2re xmms-mp3 xmms-wma xine -------------------------------------- 7) Install realplayer These instructions are from http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-fc2.shtml#real Download 8.0 Player: http://forms.real.com/real/player/unix/unix.html RealVideo 9.0 Information: http://realforum.real.com/cgi-bin/unixplayer/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=announcements&Number=3128&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5 RealVideo 9.0 Codecs: http://docs.real.com/docs/playerpatch/unix/rv9_libc6_i386_cs2.tgz Required RPM from CD's: openmotif21-2.1.30-9.i386.rpm [root@myhost mm]# mv rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2_rpm rp8.linux20.libc6.i386.cs2.rpm [root@myhost mm]# rpm -ivh rp8.linux20.libc6.i386.cs2.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:RealPlayer ########################################### [100%] [root@myhost mm]# gunzip -cf rv9_libc6_i386_cs2.tgz | tar xvf - [root@myhost mm]# cp rv9/codecs/* /usr/lib/RealPlayer8/Codecs/ cp: overwrite `/usr/lib/RealPlayer8/Codecs/drv1.so.6.0'? y cp: overwrite `/usr/lib/RealPlayer8/Codecs/drv2.so.6.0'? y cp: overwrite `/usr/lib/RealPlayer8/Codecs/drv3.so.6.0'? y cp: overwrite `/usr/lib/RealPlayer8/Codecs/rv10.so.6.0'? y cp: overwrite `/usr/lib/RealPlayer8/Codecs/rv20.so.6.0'? y cp: overwrite `/usr/lib/RealPlayer8/Codecs/rv30.so.6.0'? y [root@myhost mm]# cp rv9/plugins/rvrend.so.6.0 /usr/lib/RealPlayer8/Plugins/ cp: overwrite `/usr/lib/RealPlayer8/Plugins/rvrend.so.6.0'? y You can delete /root/mimeinstall.results if you like. For Mozilla plugins: ------------------- The rp8.linux20.libc6.i386.cs2.rpm file will install the plugins to: /usr/lib/netscape/plugins/ [root@myhost mm]# cp /usr/lib/netscape/plugins/* /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins The new forum location: https://helixcommunity.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=42 -----------------------------------------