Fedora 2 on a Presario 2100 Laptop?
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Mon Aug 16 23:34:39 UTC 2004
--- John Cox & Christine Armond <pkands108 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- Olwe Melwasul <olwe at cpinternet.com> wrote:
>
> > Anybody have experience putting Fedora 2 on a Presario 2100
> laptop? I
> >
> > found a link at http://clevershark.com that talks about F1,
> but
> > apparently there's different issues between 2.4 and 2.6. The
> first
> > big
> > question is do I need to get Partition Magic to partition the
> drive
> > (currently totally XPed--with weird Compaq proprietary stuff
> on it),
> > or
> > can Fedora handle the repartitioning...or perhaps Mandrake
> 10, as I
> > heard a rumor?
> >
> > Olwe
> >
> >
>
> I am dual-booting XP and FC2 on a 2100us. The only problems
> I've had
> are
> 1. with the mousepad --worked fine with FC1 but you will need
> to
> install the synaptics driver for FC2. I don't really use the
> pad so I
> didn't do that.
> 2. If you connect via dialup you will need a driver. I bought
> the one
> from Linuxant.com for 15.00 USD. There is a free version out
> there
> somewhere.
>
> 3. In order to get P.Magic to work I had to run chkdsk /f to
> fix some
> errors that PM objected to. I would recommend compacting the
> drive
> first with swap turned off and also turning off the recovery
> feature
> until after you change the partitions (XP defragmenter seems to
> do a
> better job that way). After chkdsk I had no problems with PM.
>
> Just a note: You won't be able to use your xp recovery disk
> after you
> change the partition (without wiping out Linux). And if you
> have to
> reinstall/recover using the xp system disk you will lose most
> of the
> free software like Norton's, WinDVD,etc. For me that is no
> problem.
>
> Good Luck.
>
>
You can do a complete backup and then repartition the disk using
the SysRescueCD. http://www.sysresccd.org/
I did that when I installed FC1 on my Compaq laptop. Since I
don't have *any* Windows disks for it for I was very worried
about munging up the XP that was on it.
First run a complete defrag in Windows to move the empty space to
the end of the disk.
Then you simply boot on the SysRescueCD.
I made several saves of the existing disk blocks using Partimage
to write the blocks using Samba to a windows share on another PC.
I made the saved files a max size of 700MB so I could later burn
them to CD-R.
Then I used qt_parted from the SysRescueCD to resize the FAT32
partition to make room for Linux and Linux swap.
Afterwards, the Windows partition was perfectly healthy - just
smaller when I was done.
If the Windows partition is NTFS you might have a different
story. Parted can't resize a NTFS partition.
I left mine as FAT32 so I could mount and write to it from
Fedora.
--Mike
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