Re: FC6 dual boot with Win XP Home on Compaq Presario 2500 Series notebook
by pratyushjoshi2000＠yahoo.com
Thanks a lot for the input, Nil. I will try out the dual boot exercise after partitioning using GParted Live CD.
In Windows XP, if you connect a new (external) hard drive thru a USB port, you can "initialize" the drive and create partitions using: "Start" -> "My Computer" -(right click)--> "Manage" -> "Computer Management" -> "Disk Management". If you don't format the partitions, the filesystem of the partition is seen as "RAW". But I guess it is one of those Microsoft quirks.
The good thing, from what I understand, is that the "1024 cylinder limit" is unlikely in my notebook's BIOS.
Thanks once again.
Cheers...
Nil Gradisnik <ghaefbgtk(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I don't quite understand how did you create 4 partitions without
formating/creating them? I think that's not possible.
>From what I read is that windows installation created one big NTFS
partition out of your entire disk space.
My advice is to format your drive clean.
First, create a partition for windows, you can create a 15Gb or
whatever NTFS of FAT32 partition(fat32 would be a better choice if you
want to read/write your windows files from linux and if you'll mostly
use linux). Leave the rest of the drive space unpartitioned.
Install windows on this partition.
Then boot your Fedora installation disc and the installer will
properly use the unpartitioned space. You can manually create
partitions from fedora installer, but I think the default layout will
be good.
For disk partitioning you can use GParted live cd:
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php
Hope this helps.
On 12/27/06, pratyushjoshi2000(a)yahoo.com
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I bought a new 60 GB Seagate internal hard drive for my Compaq Presario 2500
> Series notebook with the hopes of creating a dual boot system.
> I initialized the hard drive and created 4 partitions of 15 GB each on it. I
> did not format any partition. Then I plugged the hard drive in my notebook
> and installed Windows XP Home on the first 15 GB partition, after which I
> restarted the notebook and booted from the Fedora Core 6 Disk 1.
> Unfortunately, FC6 shows only one partition of 60 GB formatted as NTFS.
> My questions are:
> 1. Do I have to format the next 15 GB partition as ext3 for FC6 to read it
> properly ?
> 2. I read about the "1024 cylinder limit" problem. Do I have to create the
> first (Windows) partition less than 2 GB or 8.4 GB so as to allow FC6 to
> determine the partitions correctly ? I had bought my laptop in Nov. 2003 so
> I am not sure if this "1024 cylinder limit" is an issue at all with it. Is
> there any way to find it out by looking at the Setup information during
> Windows boot ?
>
> Any help or insight would be highly appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance...
>
> Cheers,
> TechieGuy
>
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17 years, 3 months
FC6 dual boot with Win XP Home on Compaq Presario 2500 Series notebook
by pratyushjoshi2000＠yahoo.com
Hi,
I bought a new 60 GB Seagate internal hard drive for my Compaq Presario 2500 Series notebook with the hopes of creating a dual boot system.
I initialized the hard drive and created 4 partitions of 15 GB each on it. I did not format any partition. Then I plugged the hard drive in my notebook and installed Windows XP Home on the first 15 GB partition, after which I restarted the notebook and booted from the Fedora Core 6 Disk 1.
Unfortunately, FC6 shows only one partition of 60 GB formatted as NTFS.
My questions are:
1. Do I have to format the next 15 GB partition as ext3 for FC6 to read it properly ?
2. I read about the "1024 cylinder limit" problem. Do I have to create the first (Windows) partition less than 2 GB or 8.4 GB so as to allow FC6 to determine the partitions correctly ? I had bought my laptop in Nov. 2003 so I am not sure if this "1024 cylinder limit" is an issue at all with it. Is there any way to find it out by looking at the Setup information during Windows boot ?
Any help or insight would be highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance...
Cheers,
TechieGuy
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17 years, 3 months
Asus a6km laptop & gnome mount issue
by Nil Gradisnik
I'm having problems with my ASUS A6KM laptop. I'm running FedoraCore6
updated and the removable devices are not working... are not mounting
most of the time.
The situation is like this, if I insert a CD or DVD in the drive, it
doesn't show up on the Desktop or in Computer, gnome-mount is not
working. I think it does this when I'm using the computer for some
time... if I reboot the computer and leave the CD or DVD in the drive,
it mounts it ok, and it even works a few times if I remove it and put
it back in. And then again after some time it's not mounting anymore.
The same thing happens with USB stick. Sometimes it shows up on the
desktop, most of the time it doesn't.
I believe this is not that GNOME related issue, probably a kernel or
something. But I'd like to debug this... how ? I want to know how to
fix this.
It seems to me that maybe gnome-mount is not functioning correctly, or
there is a problem with a driver, kernel module. Maybe two drivers are
trying to mount the removable device and there is a conflict... I
don't know, help.
Happy holidays everyone !
17 years, 4 months
nVidia GeForce Go 7600 screen stays blank after resume
by Jos Vos
Hi,
I am testing FC6 on a laptop with a nVidia GeForce Go 7600 and this
basically works (using the standard "nv" driver), but after a
resume, the video stays blank.
I've tried some hints suggested for other video chips, but until
now none of these has given any result.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
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17 years, 4 months
USB problems in FC6
by Jacob Kroon
Hi,
I'm having problems in FC6 with devices connected via USB on my
Siemens Amilo laptop. If I plug in something, dmesg tells me:
usb 4-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: Unlink after no-IRQ? Controller is probably
using the wrong IRQ.
usb 4-3: device not accepting address 2, error -110
usb 4-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
usb 4-3: device not accepting address 3, error -110
Now if I reboot and pass "noacpi" as kernel argument, USB will
work, but then the wifi ethernet card stops working, so I can't have
both working at the same time.
Using kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 with default kernel arguments wifi works,
but USB wont work. Using kernel-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 it's the other way
around.
Could anyone help me pinpointing this down?
Regards
Jacob Kroon
17 years, 4 months
Re: Help with HP Pavilian - Again
by S. Feldman
HP Pavilian dv8280us CoreDuo T2400 2G RAM, wireless card (which does
work in XP). Just installed FC-6. Everything seems to work properly
except the wireless network card. (I have yet to try a modem-based
connection, but I expect it to work as I had that working in FC-4.) FC-4
had had a problem seeing (hearing? ;-) ) the audio card but eventually
'found' it; with FC-6 installed it found it right away.
I desparately wanna get this thing working! TIA for all help.
Steve
<-----Original Message----->
>From: g sinuco
>Sent: 12/7/2006 12:25:25 PM
>To: sdf(a)alum.rpi.edu
>Subject: Re: Help with HP Pavilian - Again
>
>Hi! I'm sorry but I don't have ideas, and instead of that a question.
Could
>you describe in detail your hardware? I have a pavillon dv6000, and
Fedora
>doesn't work propertly. Did your apply something special during the
>intallation process? something like kernel options or similar?
>
>German.
>
>sdf(a)alum.rpi.edu escribió:
>Thanks for the advice to go to Core 6. I started with 4 since a friend
had the
>disks and I didn't feel like downloading; in the end I did the download
(all
>day yesterday) but the disk burning and install went off great.
>
>The OS install and boot sequence worked/is working fine.
>
>BUT, no wireless internet. (The H/W _does_ work when I boot up in
Windows.) I
>tried to configure the card but it doesn't appear in the list (it seems
to be
>something like a "TI OHCI Compatible IEEE 1394", and in XP seems to say
"Intel/
>Pro Wireless 3945ABG". Where would I go to get the proper driver (?)
(which I
>hope exists) and exactly what would I do with it once I have it? TIA.
>
>Also, I selected "Software Developer" for the installation flavor, but
no sign
>of Emacs. Ideas?
>
>TIA,
>
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17 years, 4 months
Re: Help with HP Pavilian - Again
by S. Feldman
Thanks to everyone. I hate to be difficult, but a) I am a bit new to
Linux, b) I don't have network access to this web site FROM Linux (i.e.
I need to download files when booted in XP and xfer them manually and do
a manual install) and c) I could only make positive name identification
on atrpms.net to 2 files that Jaraslav listed (the first and last ones).
I really appreciate the group's patience - could someone give me a drop
more time and specify exactly which of these files are _required_, how
to install them (something like rpm -Uhv , right? ), and in which order
they need be installed.
I really appreciate it!
TIA,
Steve
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>From: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
>Sent: 12/7/2006 11:14:58 PM
>To: jaroslav(a)aster.pl
>Cc: fedora-laptop-list(a)redhat.com
>Subject: Re: Help with HP Pavilian - Again
>
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>Jaroslaw Gorny wrote:
>
>> All the stuff needed to run ipw3945 is packaged in RPMS and available
on:
>> http://atrpms.net
>> You can configure Your yum to handle this repo.
>>
>> the packages You need are:
>>
>> ipw3945-1.1.0-15.fc6.at
>> ipw3945d-1.7.22-4.at
>> ipw3945-ucode-1.13-2.at
>> ipw3945-kmdl-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6-1.1.0-15.fc6.at (or other kernel
version)
>> ieee80211-kmdl-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6-1.2.15-14.fc6.at
>> ieee80211-1.2.15-14.fc6.at
>
>I guess it does not have the kmod-ipw3945 needed by ipw3945-kmod-common
>
>
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17 years, 4 months
Help with HP Pavilian - Again
by S. Feldman
Thanks for the advice to go to Core 6. I started with 4 since a friend
had the disks and I didn't feel like downloading; in the end I did the
download (all day yesterday) but the disk burning and install went off
great.
The OS install and boot sequence worked/is working fine.
BUT, no wireless internet. (The H/W _does_ work when I boot up in
Windows.) I tried to configure the card but it doesn't appear in the
list (it seems to be something like a "TI OHCI Compatible IEEE 1394",
and in XP seems to say "Intel/Pro Wireless 3945ABG". Where would I go to
get the proper driver (?) (which I hope exists) and exactly what would I
do with it once I have it? TIA.
Also, I selected "Software Developer" for the installation flavor, but
no sign of Emacs. Ideas?
TIA,
Steve
17 years, 4 months
laptop hcl matrix
by Vitor Domingos
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Hi all,
Regarding the multiple questions about "does this laptop works with
fedora?", that _should_ more often than the usual, we need to start a
matrix hcl for laptops. To ease the introduction, this matrix should be
filled from a form with some basic fields. I can start a draft for this
if you all agree.
Regards,
- --
Vitor Domingos
Paradigma.pt
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17 years, 4 months
Need help w/HP Pavilian
by S. Feldman
Hi,
New to Fedora, and list... Hope this is the right place for this.
I got a new HP Pavilian laptop w/XP; at long last got Fedora (Core 4) to
dual boot with Windows. Things are looking good but I still have a few
serious problems.
During the boot sequence, it will LOCK UP totally at the step "Loading
PCMCIA". If I do the "interactive boot" thing and answer 'N' at that
step and then continue, I make it to the desktop. Question 1: What is
this, how to fix? (Even if it was OK, I can't make booting such a manual
activity.)
Question 2: How get WiFi going? I'm not sure it is seeing the card right
or what... but I'll be needing the 'net.
Other than that (and the tricks & traps with the install) I'm doing OK
here at this point. The sound wasn't working before, but that seems to
have worked itself out at this point...
TIA,
Steve
17 years, 4 months
