On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 08:41, Timothy Luoma wrote: > I am looking to install FC2 on a Dell Inspiron 7500 (to dual boot w/ > WinXP). > I'm running FC2, dual boot with XP on a Dell Inspiron 600m - works great. Only problem with install was not detecting the sound card. I ran Sound Card Detect from the System Settings menu to fix the problem. (It was an upgrade from FC1) I use an NTFS enabled kernel from http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/ which allows read access from NTFS but not write. <snip> > Someone suggested FC2, and I was wondering if you thought that the > install/config was something that a newbie-Linux-installer could handle, > or if there was another distro that you'd recommend instead? Very easy install. But read the FAQs at http://www.fedorafaq.org/ before starting. > > I see from the archives that others have installed on this hardware, so I > know it can be done. I guess I am looking for something like a > "difficulty gauge" - how easy/difficult would it be to do this (assuming > that WinXP is already installed on a separate partition, and FC2 would be > installed into a 2nd partition (about 15gb m/l). I used Partition magic to split the existing NTFS partition as well as BootMagic. The whole process only took a couple of hours. -- Clifford Snow
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