--- Boon Wee <boonwee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I installed FC1 and faced the following problems: > > 1) During installation, the installation failed > during partitioning. I > found out that the reason is due to my /home > partition, which I am > trying to preserve, is formatted as a ReiserFS. It > seems that FC1 > installation cannot support a previously partition > formatted in > ReiserFS. My question is why is FC1 not supporting > ReiserFS? > Boon, Fedora can be installed on Reiser, but is it not well-advertised. Search this list for Reiser. I believe you only have to pass an argument to the installer at install-time. > 2) So I backed up my /home partition and wiped out > everything. Installed > successfully. But found that installing the alsa, > xine, mplayer packages > is a complicated process. It seems that most other > distros ship with the > alsa, xine, mplayer packages except for FC1 and RH9. > Why is this so? > > Is FC1 targetting itself at desktop/workstation > based or server based > users? IMHO, I believe multimedia capabilities > should be included as > base for desktop/workstation users? > As for multimedia packages not included, many of these use software that is not opensource, or not freely-licensed. The Fedora Core Project does not include software with "licensing problems" - unfortunately, that means a number of useful programs are not available. However, these programs may be available as addins from outside sources, as you indicated. Mike Smith __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/
