I arrived into work on Friday morning to find my machine hung and in need of a reboot. With some regret at the lost uptime of my desktop machine I flipped the switch on the case and watched the bootup. Disaster! The 2 drives on the first IDE channel failed to show! After much cursing and general worry I tried again and this time the BIOS booted fine! Woohoo!
This morning, almost the same thing happened. I checked my mail, loaded up the dozen tabs I needed for a fix of information in the morning and suddenly my browser died. Then went Thunderbird. At the same time my machine got a lot quieter and I guessed I had disk problems again!
I brought it back to life again and managed to get everything off it and used the opportunity to install Fedora Core 2.
I installed apt from freshrpms.net but fedora.us looks like a better apt-ge trepository, if for no other reason than it has “Window Maker” rpms! Gnome and Nautilaus were way too slow on my humble machine!
If you’re upgrading from an earlier RedHat release, make sure you update the fonts your apps use. I copied over my Mozilla and Thunderbird directories and they still used “serif” and “sans serif”. Once I updated them to the “Bitstream Vera” versions, as well as the monospace font too, everything looked much better! Now to download the xmms mp3 and mplayer rpms!
Later … Freshrpms has xmms-mp3 and mplayer. Fingers crossed that both repositories can co-exist!
Later Still … It seems to be fine. Don’t forget to install the Freshrpms GPG key too!
Hmm.. Why wasn’t my sound card detected?
Soundcard on Fedora 2
Your soundcard may be working alright.
If you did not hear anything when you tested the card make sure that the volume is turned up in the Linux software. In the sound and video menu there is an item for controling the sound.
Slante
John Kerr
Guelph, Ontario Canada
I had that problem in a previous install of FC2 alright. The volume controls of my sound card were hidden next to the “default” card which was the disabled on-board sound!
This time the problem is that the sound card isn’t even detected. I ran system-config-soundcard and up popped a dialog box saying no card was detected. I’ll reboot tomorrow. Might fix it!
I found some useful help on installing Window Maker on Fedora Core 2 here