New Fedora user

[Telmo Silva]

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Hi,

well, I am a Linux newbie myself. I just start working with Linux some 4
years ago. In that time installing Linux was a really pain in the ass, I
can say. I just started with Debia, then I moved to Gentoo and now I'm
usinf Fedora Core, wich I do love. But lets go to the important things.

Primarily, in my opinion, there would be better if there was a GUI
interface to launch the setup of Fedora Core from Windows partition. But
then, as we know, Windows crashes a lot, and then, installing Linux from
windows could become a really pain in the ass as you could end up
without each of the operating systems. I think it's preferable to burn
the CD's and install it from scratch, without messing up with Windows.
Fedora Core offers yum package manager, so I think, I'm not sure but you
won't need to burn any other CD's as yum upgrades the distro for you.

I don't use Windows so I don't know what you are looking for in a disk
management tool, but if your looking for a GUI for mounting Windows
partitions, I would aprove it, as it would facilitate the job for many
newbies that don't know anything about Linux.

Telmo Silva <tsilva at zmail.pt>


Tomas Valusek wrote:
| Hello,
|
| I've just downloaded and installed Fedora Linux and I am really impressed.
| I've tried to install Linux for a first time some five years ago and since
| then Linux has made huge step ahead towards usability. But still, I can't
| figure out some issues.
|
| 1. I've downloaded ISO images, and I would appreciate a Windows-based
setup
| launcher, which would save me burning images to CDs. After burning them,
| I've discovered there's an install option for using ISO images on hard
| drive, so the launcher would be really useful.
|
| 2. After installation, I've discovered my vfat partitions are not mounted
| into Linux, and the default GNOME menu doesn't offer any disk management
| tool similar to Win-XP's Disk Management Console. Well, I know how to edit
| fstab, but GUI app would be safer.
|
| 3. I'm visually impaired and from the old times I know X server treats
| desktop size and monitor resolution independently. It's really pitty
modern
| desktops ignore this fact. My favorite setting would be desktop size
| 1024x768 and screen resolution 320x200 - really inexpensive screen
| magnification, which was running smoothly even on 486 processor.
|
| That's all for now, I'm looking forward to finally work in Linux, although
| right now my message is sent from WinXP.
|
| Tomas Valusek
|
|
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