Olwe Melwasul wrote: > Anybody have experience putting Fedora 2 on a Presario 2100 laptop? I > found a link at http://clevershark.com that talks about F1, but > apparently there's different issues between 2.4 and 2.6. The first big > question is do I need to get Partition Magic to partition the drive > (currently totally XPed--with weird Compaq proprietary stuff on it), or > can Fedora handle the repartitioning...or perhaps Mandrake 10, as I > heard a rumor? > > Olwe > > Hi, I installed successfully FC1 and FC2 on a Compaq Presario 2120EU. I partitioned beforehand with Partition Magic (you can use Acronis as well). One issue I had was with FC1, when i had to specify linux mem=256 at the first boot prompt (CD1). Also it frose because of PCMCIA controller. You might want to go directly to FC2. With FC2 there was another issue: http://lwn.net/Articles/86835/ will enlighten you. Briefly, make sure you specify disk geometry before booting from CD1. It could save a LOT of trouble. Read also http://www.fedorafaq.org/ and http://fedoranews.org/ to find solutions to your eventual troubles (there should be none). When partitioning your harddrive, it will be usefull to have at least a separate partition for the /home directory. At next reinstall/upgrade you will not have to back-up/restore everything (settings I mean ...). When installing choose to use disk druid to format your partitions, because there is a slight change in ext3fs that will make your system hick-up on first boot (if partitions are formatted by PM or Acronis, it will try to check for errors ant it will ... give an error = rebooting after that seems to be fine). Good luck and enjoy FC2 on your Presario! P.S Go to HP's support site and check for BIOS updates as well ... Marian
