Hello all I have installed and happily running fedora core 3 now. Over the last few days issues with fc3 I have encountered with. media check error solution: linux mediacheck ide=nodma setting up yum mirror solution: http://fedoranews.org/tchung/yum-gpg http://fedoranews.org/tchung/yum-mirrorlist fedora overwrite .bashrc and .bash_profile cp .bashrc .bash_profile path/to/backup and restore if necessary nVidia driver download latest nVidia driver http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux.html no longer required kernel source to compil latest nVidia driver edit /etc/inittab id:5:initdefault: change id:3:initdefault: log in as root bash NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf comment out Load dri and Driver "nv" # Load "dri" . . # Driver "nv" directly under #Driver "nv" add this Driver nvidia modprobe nvidia to produce device files in /dev cp -a /dev/nvidia* /etc/udev/devices chown root.root /etc/udev/devices/nvidia* change id:3:initdefault: in /etc/inittab to id:5:initdefault: shutdown hang solution: append acpi=off to /etc/grub.conf kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet acpi=off change domain name gedit /etc/hosts # Do not remove the following line, or various programs # that require network functionality will fail. 127.0.0.1 yourhostname localhost.localdomain localhost gedit /etc/sysconfig/network NETWORKING=yes HOSTNAME=yourhostname #HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain to enhance my experience with fedora I always install apt-get http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/3/apt/apt-0.5.15cnc6-1.1.fc3.fr.i386.rpm synaptic http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/3/synaptic/synaptic-0.55.1-1.1.fc3.fr.i386.rpm with a console su password rpm -Uvh apt-0.5.15cnc6-1.1.fc3.fr.i386.rpm rpm -Uvh synaptic-0.55.1-1.1.fc3.fr.i386.rpm apt-get update synaptic (choose packages you want) if you want to listen to mp3 and watch DVD. you need to install xmms xmms-mp3 xmms-other-decoder xine other great sources http://fedoranews.org/ http://www.fedorafaq.org/ http://home.gagme.com/greg/linux/fc3-tips.php
