--- Olwe Melwasul <olwe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 > > I am dual-booting XP and FC2 on a 2100us. The only problems I've had are 1. with the mousepad --worked fine with FC1 but you will need to install the synaptics driver for FC2. I don't really use the pad so I didn't do that. 2. If you connect via dialup you will need a driver. I bought the one from Linuxant.com for 15.00 USD. There is a free version out there somewhere. 3. In order to get P.Magic to work I had to run chkdsk /f to fix some errors that PM objected to. I would recommend compacting the drive first with swap turned off and also turning off the recovery feature until after you change the partitions (XP defragmenter seems to do a better job that way). After chkdsk I had no problems with PM. Just a note: You won't be able to use your xp recovery disk after you change the partition (without wiping out Linux). And if you have to reinstall/recover using the xp system disk you will lose most of the free software like Norton's, WinDVD,etc. For me that is no problem. Good Luck.
