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 > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
