FC2 & Dell Inspiron 7500 - newbie friendly?

[Daniel]

Hi ,

Please, go first to  http://lwn.net/Articles/86835/

there is one point they are not talking on the article on the link 
above. Just figure out the following scenario:
         1)  you have a system with WindowsXP
         2) you try to install  FC2
         3)  FC2 intallation modifies your hd geometry  parameters 
before the installation finishes
         4) for any reason your installation FC2 doesn't finish ok (for 
instance, for a similar reason that made me send this list a message 
without getting any answer until now - see messages sent by Daniel)
          Since the geometry  was changed, XP won't  boot. Since FC2 has 
not finished to install, you do not have an operating   system. You 
should not  -as it's advised on the article - use other  programs to 
repair your  geometry. Following their advice, you shall have to pay 
someone to fix things.

         I think you should think  better evaluate  installing FC1 or 
FC2 looking  first for the problems that might occur in your system .


Daniel

Aaron Bennett wrote:

> Timothy Luoma wrote:
>
>> I am looking to install FC2 on a Dell Inspiron 7500 (to dual boot w/
>> WinXP).
>>
>> Someone suggested FC2, and I was wondering if you thought that the
>> install/config was something that a newbie-Linux-installer could handle,
>> or if there was another distro that you'd recommend instead?
>>
>>
>>  
>>
> It's definately easy to install.  You can "next, next, next" your way 
> through the installer and have a FC2 system.  However, "newbie 
> friendly" is more then that.  If you want to play mp3s, view flash 
> applets, java applets, and real audio stuff over the web, you'll have 
> to configure a number of third-party rpm repositories in yum.conf.  
> However, if you are comfortable with the command line enough to not 
> freak about about editing /etc/yum.conf, then you might be happy with 
> FC2.  Check out http://www.fedora.us , http://rpm.livna.org , and 
> http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/FAQ.php.
>
> Also see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Fedora-Multimedia-Installation-HOWTO/
>