README: Current Fedora Core 2 Problems & Solutions/Helpful Links

Sat Jul 17 11:37:16 UTC 2004

Latest problems:

***WinXP Dual boot problems***
So you've installed Fedora Core 2 and now you can't boot into Windows
XP...STOP RIGHT THERE! Quit playing with that partition table. Go here
for the fix:

http://www.fedorafaq.org/#nodualboot

If you'd like to read in-depth info on this problem, why it happens and
why the above cure works, go here:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-May/msg00908.html
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***Asus P4P800 Series motherboard/Via C3Processor motherboards***
Got one and tried to install Fedora Core 2?  Won't install, right?  Go
here to fix:

http://www.fedorafaq.org/#installreboot
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***FC2 Mounting of USB Storage devices fails with error reading
sector***
Update to a later kernel package, eg, from 

http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.6/RPMS. kernel/

Use rpm -i to install the kernel package, then edit /boot/grub/grub.conf
to 
set default=0 and reboot into the new kernel
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Want to boot from floppy disk?  Try this:

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-June/msg04381.html
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This list has seen alot of questions/problems on SATA drives.  Here's
the latest Buzilla list:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=sata&cmdtype=doit
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Another thread generator is USB problems:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=usb&cmdtype=doit
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It's never too late to read the Release Notes for Fedora Core 2:

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/2/i386/os/RELEASE-NOTES-en.html
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Using FC2 in a production environment, or thinking about doing so? Just
a little bit of advice from http://fedora.redhat.com/ :

"The Fedora Project is a Red-Hat-sponsored and community-supported open
source project. It is also a proving ground for new technology that may
eventually make its way into Red Hat products. It is not a supported
product of Red Hat, Inc."

Please read those 3 sentences carefully.
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For other problem fixes/information, please go to the Unofficial FAQ. 
Trust me, the answer is probably there.  If it's not, there will most
likely be a link to it:

http://www.fedorafaq.org/
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Have a look atFedoraNEWS.ORG's current news article...scroll down to the
"Round-up of some usual/common FC2 issues":

http://fedoranews.org/colin/fnu/current.shtml
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Try the Fedora Forum:

http://www.fedoraforum.org/
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Check Bugzilla, try the "most frequently reported bugs" listing first:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/duplicates.cgi
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Here's the link to the Archive for this list:

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/

You can try the search feature at the top of that page, but it's been
known to be flaky at times. If you have problems there, go to:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&r=1&w=2

That's an alternate site for the fedora-list archives and has a working
search engine. 
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Try Google:

http://www.google.com/
-or-
http://www.google.com/linux

Slap a string in there with your error message (or part of it) and see
if anyone else has had the problem.
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If you can't find an answer to your problem with any of those steps
above, post here at fedora-list at redhat.com.  But BEFORE YOU DO THAT- two
things that will get you mighty quick answers.  

The first is Netiquette:

-Don't top-post.  Please put your reply *below* the reply of the person
that posted before you.
-Cut irrelevant text from the post before yours. It's polite to indicate
this in some way.
-Don't post in HTML, use plain text as some folks' mail readers don't
read HTML format.

The second is to include the following information about your problem:

-A descriptive subject title. This will spare folks who don't have
advice from spending the time reading your note, and will single out
those who do. It will also be a great help to those who come after you
with the same problem.
-Hardware specs of your machine: motherboard, CPU, video card, ethernet
card, etc...
-Software info: Kernel version, Window manager.
-Error messages.
-Steps you took that got you to this error.
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General non-problem stuff:

Got window manager questions? Want to know how to do something in your
chosen window manager?

If you're using Gnome, go here:
http://www.gnome.org/learn/

Mailing lists:
http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/

If you're using KDE, go here:
http://www.kde.org/documentation/

Mailing lists:
http://www.kde.org/mailinglists/
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Now that you've got your Fedora box up and running, of course you want
to stuff it full of apps and goodies!  Go to FreshRPMs:

http://tettnang.freshrpms.net/

 -or-

Freshmeat:
http://freshmeat.net/
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Want to know how to do something?  See the HOWTO'S!

http://tldp.org/
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For general Linux usage/questions, I've found this message board useful:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/
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Here's a wonderful site that was posted to this list:

http://lottalinuxlinks.com/
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Finally, here's the link to *all* Redhat mailing lists:
http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/
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Many thanks to the folks at fedora-list who have contributed to this
listing.  If I named them all this note would be twice the size ;)

Comments/questions? Please send email to me, Lisa, at
melgil88 at optonline.net