Re: New Fedora Install

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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
> 
> 
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