Just installed Linux Fedora


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It rocks! So different than Windows, I like it! I got kinda bored of Windows, ya know, always the same crap.... Gets boring :crazy:

But hey, this thing kicks! I installed the ntfs thingy (That I found on neowin, by the way ;)), installed a newer version of xmms (Could you understand that it said that mpeg3 support was dropped in Red hat??? :blink: ), works fine now :D

Just wanted to say my experience :)

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Well ok I was in fedora but now it doesn't want to boot anymore :pinch:

When I enter my username and password, it just freezes :pinch:

I'll reinstall it later on and post a screenie :s

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Well ok I was in fedora but now it doesn't want to boot anymore :pinch:

When I enter my username and password, it just freezes :pinch:

I'll reinstall it later on and post a screenie :s

You shouldn't have to reinstall. (this isn't Windows) ;)

If you have GRUB as a bootloader, then you should be able to force it to runlevel 3 (text mode) by using the command interface.

kerenl / vmlinuz ro root=/dev/hda1

(if hda1 is where your / is mounted)

Then you can try to startx and see what is causing the problem. :)

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I had to choose between Fedora and Mandrake 10.0 and I chose Mandrake ... and it rocks too but I will definitely try Fedora next hearing alot of good thigns about it

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Nice, I'm thinking about trying the new version of Fedora. Right now I have mandrake 9.2 but I really haven't took the time to do anything with it that much :(

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Could you understand that it said that mpeg3 support was dropped in Red hat???

*sarcasm*no, really?

sorry, had to say that...you can blame Fraunhauffer (the inventor of the MP3) for that one...EVERY distro can't bundle it anymore...there's reasons, but I won't get into it...

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Well, I fixed it with the help of a friend. I put the wrong driver for the X server, so the vid card driver was failing >.<

Fixed now.....

Here's the screenshot :)

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Well the thing is that I did try to install Firefox on there.... but it comes in .gz form, so I have to use the extractor (It's called file something?), when I do, it extracts half-way then it 'Windows'es (Crashes) and it says that the application did an error and blah blah blah....

:huh:

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Well the thing is that I did try to install Firefox on there.... but it comes in .gz form, so I have to use the extractor (It's called file something?)

This is a little long, but it'll help you learn a few things....

You can also extract it via terminal using tar:

tar -zxvf file.tar.gz (use the zxvf if it's a gz extention, and jxvf if it's a bz2 extention)

Also, since you're using Gnome, make sure you get the xft version (for smooth fonts):

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/fir...gtk2+xft.tar.gz

Now since this is a binary file (aka you don't have to compile it), you can either leave it in your home directory or if you have other users, you can put it in the /usr/share directory for others to use. You'll have to log into terminal as root to do so by typing "su" (without the "") and the administrator password. Here's a good example of how to do this in terminal:

su (followed by password)
mv ~/firefox /usr/share/
ln -s /usr/share/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox

The above does the following:

su - gets you into root so you can move the file to the /usr/share directory

mv - the move command, where you tell the firefox directory to move from your home directory to the /usr/share directory. The ~ symbol in terminal is a generic way to point to your home directory, instead of typing /home/username.

ln - creates a link. the -s means to create a symbolic link. You put the symbolic link in the /usr/bin directory so that anyone can run firefox by typing "firefox" (without the "") in terminal.

Now, if you want to create a launcher to start firefox without having to use terminal all the time, you can create a launcher, type in firefox in the command line, and choose an icon. It'll load firefox without having to tell it where it's specifically located.

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