FC9 installation on SATA HDD

[sachin.parnami]

Hi *,

I am trying to install FC9 on SATA HDD but its not happening. can any buddy guide me for that how to do so?




Regards,
Sachin Parnami

[devils casper]

I am trying to install FC9 on SATA HDD but its not happening.

Does installer throw any error?

[sachin.parnami]

No i didn't but it stops or hangs after saying starting anaconda thats all

[devils casper]

Post your machine's specs here. Which Graphics Card do you have? Have you tried to install Fedora in Text Mode?

[sachin.parnami]

Hi,


Configuration of my system is

AMD athlon 64 bit 2800
RAM 512 MB
HDD SATA
Motherboard GIGABYTE

i dont have any external graphic card what ever is there its on board not sure which one it is

and one more thing can you please guide me how am i suppose to do Dual booting if i have Windows XP installed already and i want to install FC9 now
Additionally i have a HDD of 250 GB ATA which contains some data and Windows XP installed on it
so alternatively i was thinking i can install FC9 on ATA which workes fine i belive

otherwise my planning was to install FC9 on SATA and plug out ATA 250 GB can you please help me out for this

[devils casper]

In Two Hard disks setup, best way is, unplug Hard disk having Windows OS during Linux Installation. It really easy to setup dual boot after installing Linux successfully.

First of all, try to install Fedora 9 in text mode. In case it doesn't work, try installing it in ATA disk. Make sure to unplug SATA disk during installation.
Create free space in ATA disk using any partition manager. GParted Partition Manager is available in Fedora disk only. Download PartedMagic LiveCD otherwise.
Create two partitions.
512 MB, SWAP
8-10 GB, ext3
Start Fedora installation and select Manual Partitioning in Partition Section. Select ext3 partition and assign it / mount point. Installer will detect SWAP partition.
You won't have to do anything for dual boot setup. Installer will detect Windows OS and setup dual boot itself. You will have choice to boot up either OS at startup.

[sachin.parnami]

Thanks a lot

Will give it a try and get back to you

being a novice with linux i have FC9 already installed on my LAPTOP but with that i get some Sound problem

when ever i play any movie first time it works well if i close it in between before getting finish and try to start another movie or video file it always throws a error it is some thing like

Cannot find PCM sample

then i have to restart my system then only it will work i have tried using alt+ctrl+backspace, but no luck

I use mplayer for playing video files

Sorry am asking you another question in same thread

Found a genius at other end so thought of clearing doubts which Travers in my mind

[devils casper]

I am not a Mplayer user but I will look into this problem.
Have you tried VLC Player? It supports most of the media formats including mp3 and works pretty fine.

su -
yum -y install vlc

* Thanx for compliment but I am not a genius. Linux is very easy. Just keep on experimenting with it and try to help others. You will learn a lot.

[sachin.parnami]

With pleasure

will give it a try too (VLC)

Strange you havn't got such problem here persons in my contact always gets such sound problem you cann't play two player if one is already running it will throw an error

Actually for our working we use media uses alot so might be for that reason we have experienced


Any ways Thanks a lot again

[sachin.parnami]

Hi i tried VLC it rockes and runs smoothly


But now i have installed FC9 on my SATA HDD in text mode every thing went fine but when i tried to run startx command it goes to GUI and HANGS at first screen


Any idea?