grendal Posted June 24, 2004 Report Share Posted June 24, 2004 I've been thinking about trying Fedora core 2, but after some surfing I found this article: http://www.fedorazine.com/content/view/191/ which is about possible problems in a dual boot install. Now in there it says to get the Fedora Core 2 Rescue CD. Where is this available from? ANd has any one else had any issuses with windows not booting after installing this? The fix seems somewhat easy (I printed it out, just in case.) I have also thought about trying PCLInuxOS preview-7, between the two which offers better multimedia support/ease of multimedia configuration/installion (dvd playback/ streaming audio/ java/etc.)? Also with preview-7, are 9.2 rpms still good? or should I use .tar and compile ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted June 24, 2004 Report Share Posted June 24, 2004 I got them/it here ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/2/i386/iso/ they should all have it....no? http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html I partitioned first win PM8 and put grub in / so I didn't expect any boot issues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted June 24, 2004 Report Share Posted June 24, 2004 (edited) I realize grub is not the problem but incase you're interested. http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=11887 I have found this the best way to dualboot with win, because it allows win to be in control of the mbr/boot which is how it likes it. Control. Edited June 24, 2004 by bvc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grendal Posted June 24, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 24, 2004 Thanks, I will read that. I also got the rescue disk, thanks, and have 3 of 4 disks download. I have also discovered that core 2 and NVIDIA 3d drivers aren't compatible, how hard is it to install a "nvidia friendly kernel" (which is Offered-but I forget where I saw it but thats what google is for). Or is there a new nvidia driver looming soon? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted June 25, 2004 Report Share Posted June 25, 2004 (edited) cybrjackle to the rescue http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?sho...l=fedora+nvidia Edited June 25, 2004 by bvc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted June 25, 2004 Report Share Posted June 25, 2004 After uncompressing some bkup tarballs a reboot to win shows all of hdb to be corrupt Fedora still boots but...... I d/k if this has anything to do with fedora or not :unsure: hda=30GB Maxtor (win98se/xp) and hdb=120GB Maxtor(pagefile/xp/xp/2k/data/media/swap/fedora/and more) I switched everything over now and will reinstall fedora. hda=120GB (win98se/xp/pagefile/xp/xp/2k/data/media) hdb=linux only Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grendal Posted June 25, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 25, 2004 Ok here's the page I found : http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/NVIDIA_dr..._Hat_Linux.html It has you go to : http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/wlan/...ks.i686.rpm.zip which is the compliant 8stacks kernel. I haven't installed (Fedora-tonites project) yet but since this is a rpm it may be more my speed than cyberjackle's method. Although, I probally should use Cyberjackles method so I can learn something and not be so dependant on rpms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted June 27, 2004 Report Share Posted June 27, 2004 going here http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/wlan/...kernel-i686.php downloading and installing the kernel and kernel-sourcecode, installing nvidia worked for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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