Hiya evbdy..

I am very new to the FC 6..really wanted to check it out and not able to reach anywhere..


here r the details :

I have a lenovo 3000 N100 0689-3MA laptop. It has an intel solo 1.66 processor and 256 mb RAM currently running on win xp home.

first i downloaded fedora zod i-86 version from fedoraproject.org torrent. It was the iso file for dvd of 3,28 gb..the download was fine and got two files..first the iso image and another one sh1sum..

I burned this image on a dvd..i wanted to keep xp so using partition magic 8..i created a linux ext2 partition of 15 gig and a linux swap partition of 500 megs..my hard-dsik was 60 megs so kept another 15 gigs for win xp and remaining in a FAT32 parition coz i read somewhere that both fedora and win xp will be able to recognize it...

next step was booting from this dvd that i burnt...changed the boot sequence in bios for the first boot device..other bootable dvds and cds are just booting fine...but this burnt dvd does nt boot at all...

my questions are :

Is this image from fedoraproject.org a bootable one??

am i missing some tricks here???

wat shud i do now to install this??

a few other questions :

I have a lenovo 3000 N100 0689-3MA laptop. It has an intel solo 1.66 processor and 256 mb RAM and 60 gig sata hard-drive. Will this be compatible with the Fedora-ZOD??
What about the drivers for wireless and sound card as i was not able to locate any on lenovo websites??
my sound card is frm soundmax integrated high definition...even microsoft doesnt provide the drivers..they have a sorta testing version of drivers acc to to KB888111 on thier support site..is that going to be hassle??


please guide me as i really wanna check fedora..cant tolerate the windows crap...

Thanks to million to all...

Fedora (and any other distro) should work just fine on S-ATA disks. However I suggest you use reiserfs or ext3 as your file system for the Linux partition.

I found out that to get audio working, you need to add the following line to /etc/modprobe.d/sound
That laptop of yours should have a Broadcom wi-fi device, which has its own drivers. If those drivers wont work, you can try ndiswrapper.

I'm not exactly sure why your computer wont boot on the Fedora disk but the downloaded ISO might be broken. Check the sha1sum.

More info about laptops running Linux can be found at TuxMobil and Linux on Laptops.

thanks a mill boss...

i tried using the ext3 file system as well..same issue..cant boot frm the dvd...

hey can u suggest any other paritioning s/w apart frm partition magic 8 which works better...


thanks for the prompt reply...

Changing the file system or partitioning tool doesn't solve the booting problem AFAIK. Check the sha1sum. The ISO might have been violated during downloading or burning.

As for the partition tool, I use SystemRescueCD which includes GParted partitioning tool.