Apologies for the sporadic posting of this note, I've been bludgeoned by Real Life lately and have been off track. I'll try to keep to this once a week from now on... ________________________________________________________________________ Who is this email for? People who are new to fedora-list and most likely new to Fedora Core 2. What is this email for? It's a listing of the latest/most thread producing problems that crop up with Fedora Core 2. It is an attempt to stave off the same questions being asked over and over again on this list. The intent is that new folks will read it and find the info they need without asking here as this is an *extremely* busy list. Also included are helpful links to get a newbie started reading the most important news and information about Fedora, its included window managers, and Linux in general. "I'm tired of seeing this thing every week!" Filter it out! Here's a very informative thread posted for Ximian Evolution: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-August/msg01250.html If any oldbies have quick tips on filtering with other email apps, please mail me off-list and I'll include them. Now, on to the good stuff! ;) ********************************************************************* Latest problems: Please note this list is only for Fedora Core 1 and 2! Any Fedora 3 test release questions/comments should go to fedora-test-list: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list ______________________________________________________________________ ***WinXP Dual boot problems*** So you've installed Fedora Core 2 and now you can't boot into Windows XP...STOP RIGHT THERE! Quit playing with that partition table. Go here for the fix: http://www.fedorafaq.org/#nodualboot If you'd like to read in-depth info on this problem, why it happens and why the above cure works, go here: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-May/msg00908.html _______________________________________________________________________ ***Asus P4P800 Series motherboard/Via C3Processor motherboards*** Got one and tried to install Fedora Core 2? Won't install, right? Go here to fix: http://www.fedorafaq.org/#installreboot _______________________________________________________________________ ***FC2 Mounting of USB Storage devices fails with error reading sector*** Update to a later kernel package, eg, from http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.6/RPMS.kernel/ Use rpm -i to install the kernel package, then edit /boot/grub/grub.conf to set default=0 and reboot into the new kernel _______________________________________________________________________ Want to boot from floppy disk? Try this: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-June/msg04381.html _______________________________________________________________________ This list has seen alot of questions/problems on SATA drives. Here's the latest Buzilla list: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=sata&cmdtype=doit _______________________________________________________________________ Another thread generator is USB problems: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=usb&cmdtype=doit _______________________________________________________________________ It's never too late to read the Release Notes for Fedora Core 2: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/2/i386/os/RELEASE-NOTES-en.html _______________________________________________________________________ Using FC2 in a production environment, or thinking about doing so? Just a little bit of advice from http://fedora.redhat.com/ : "The Fedora Project is a Red-Hat-sponsored and community-supported open source project. It is also a proving ground for new technology that may eventually make its way into Red Hat products. It is not a supported product of Red Hat, Inc." Please read those 3 sentences carefully. ______________________________________________________________________ For other problem fixes/information, please go to the Unofficial FAQ. Trust me, the answer is probably there. If it's not, there will most likely be a link to it: http://www.fedorafaq.org/ _______________________________________________________________________ Have a look atFedoraNEWS.ORG's current news article...scroll down to the "Round-up of some usual/common FC2 issues": http://fedoranews.org/colin/fnu/current.shtml _______________________________________________________________________ Try the Fedora Forum: http://www.fedoraforum.org/ _______________________________________________________________________ Check Bugzilla, try the "most frequently reported bugs" listing first: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/duplicates.cgi _______________________________________________________________________ Here's the link to the Archive for this list: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/ You can try the search feature at the top of that page, but it's been known to be flaky at times. If you have problems there, go to: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&r=1&w=2 That's an alternate site for the fedora-list archives and has a working search engine. _______________________________________________________________________ Try Google: http://www.google.com/ -or- http://www.google.com/linux Slap a string in there with your error message (or part of it) and see if anyone else has had the problem. _______________________________________________________________________ If you can't find an answer to your problem with any of those steps above, post here at fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxxx But BEFORE YOU DO THAT- two things that will get you mighty quick answers. The first is Netiquette: -Don't top-post. Please put your reply *below* the reply of the person that posted before you. -Cut irrelevant text from the post before yours. It's polite to indicate this in some way. -Don't post in HTML, use plain text as some folks' mail readers don't read HTML format. The second is to include the following information about your problem: -A descriptive subject title. This will spare folks who don't have advice from spending the time reading your note, and will single out those who do. It will also be a great help to those who come after you with the same problem. -Hardware specs of your machine: motherboard, CPU, video card, ethernet card, etc... -Software info: Kernel version, Window manager. -Error messages. -Steps you took that got you to this error. ______________________________________________________________________ General non-problem stuff: Got window manager questions? Want to know how to do something in your chosen window manager? If you're using Gnome, go here: http://www.gnome.org/learn/ Mailing lists: http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ If you're using KDE, go here: http://www.kde.org/documentation/ Mailing lists: http://www.kde.org/mailinglists/ ______________________________________________________________________ Now that you've got your Fedora box up and running, of course you want to stuff it full of apps and goodies! Go to FreshRPMs: http://tettnang.freshrpms.net/ -or- Freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/ ______________________________________________________________________ Want to know how to do something? See the HOWTO'S! http://tldp.org/ ______________________________________________________________________ For general Linux usage/questions, I've found this message board useful: http://www.linuxquestions.org/ ______________________________________________________________________ Here's a wonderful site that was posted to this list: http://lottalinuxlinks.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ Finally, here's the link to *all* Redhat mailing lists: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ ______________________________________________________________________ Many thanks to the folks at fedora-list who have contributed to this listing. If I named them all this note would be twice the size ;) Comments/questions? Please send email to me, Lisa, at melgil88@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
