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    Fedora corrupting XP?

    Hi,

    I've juts installed the Fedora Core 1 on my new laptop (Dell Inspiron 8500).

    Now I can't enter windows xp! Just before the login screen, I get a blue screen and the computer reboots... Fedora is working, but i need XP.

    I've changed the partitions like that:
    hda1: 3 Gb ntfs for XP
    hda2: 100 Mb ext3 for boot
    hda3: 700 Mb swap
    hda4: 5 Gb ext3 for linux installation
    hda5: 20 Gb ntfs for Windows proograms
    hda6: 20 Gb ntfs for data

    I've used Partition Expert 2003 under XP for partitioning. Before installing Fedora, the partitions were working, i could use xp and reboot normally.

    What could do this? I have Alcohol 120% (1.4.7.1005 i think) installed on xp, maybe the virtual drive can give a blue screen?

    I can boot in safe mode though, everything isnt lost, yet...

    Thanks again for your help.

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    Thou should NEVER use Grub or Lilo as a boot manager. Use third party stuff, which uses just the MBR sectors and no HD space. And yes, Fedora core 1 (AKA Yarrow) is the buggiest Linux distro I have ever seen...
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    Quote Originally Posted by scarecrow
    Thou should NEVER use Grub or Lilo as a boot manager. Use third party stuff, which uses just the MBR sectors and no HD space. And yes, Fedora core 1 (AKA Yarrow) is the buggiest Linux distro I have ever seen...
    damit

    So redhat 9 should be better than fedora?

    What could you suggest me? tanks...
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    Quote Originally Posted by big_gie
    damit

    So redhat 9 should be better than fedora?

    What could you suggest me? tanks...

    SUSE 9..................A better option !
    On the side of the box it said "Install Windows XP or better" so I installed LINUX
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    lol ...however,though SUSE is ok with apps,i had probs while trying 2 work directly with the src of apps...it won't compile...that was in 8.2....

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    Well,

    deleted fedora partitions, and reinstalled XP since it was on C: and programs/data was on D: and E:...

    Maybe I'll try Suse...
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    goood choice,apart from my little probs ,this distros rocks

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    for a laptop?
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    I have problems mounting NTFS partitions with SuSE 9, even at read-only mode. Another couple of things are broken (still), but in general it is very good. Mandrake 9.2 has also improved quite a lot since the initial release, but still their KDE implementation is buggy- in particular Konqueror gives plenty of segmentation faults and quite a bit of screen flickering (without OpenGL drivers).
    For a laptop, you might like to try Knoppix (one of the easiest and stablest Debian variants available), although the included kernel does not have ACPI support built-in (at least at the Knoppix releases I've tried), so you will need to compile your own kernel.
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    btw has ntfs writing become stable?

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    Quote Originally Posted by serjer
    btw has ntfs writing become stable?
    It seems that 9.0 does not have even NTFS read out of the box! It seems fearing the same things as Redhat, cause neither Redhat nor Fedora can mount NTFS with the prebuilt kernels.
    NTFS writing is still not recommended- as Microshaft does not give details about the filesystem intricacies, progress is very slow. Of course you can patch your kernel to allow NTFS writing, but then you shouldn't complain if you would lose all your data there...
    Last edited by scarecrow; 28-11-2003 at 13:32.
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    Hmmmm ..... And people slag of Microsoft Windows OS ????....

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    Quote Originally Posted by hamcom
    Hmmmm ..... And people slag of Microsoft Windows OS ????....

    Yeah....when i see linux..its always some problems,some mess..drivers..whatever.....The only problems on my pc came from my stupidity or installing warez version which fuc..d my pc.....never from ms.......or some dumb software companys which selling garbage......like paragon drive backup....they put you in poissition to make a boot cd yourself..compiling some hidden files or whatever is the prodecure....anyway..conclussion....I know i will get flamed..but..
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    Quote Originally Posted by hamcom
    Hmmmm ..... And people slag of Microsoft Windows OS ????....

    If you are running a Linux distro where stability is the premium (eg Slackware) and you don't want the edge-of-the seat development technology, it will run perfectly FOREVER without a single reboot, mate... unless you use a new kernel, of course. Or maybe a new graphics driver, in that case you don't even have to reboot, just shut down and restart the xserver.
    Are Linux developers responsible for the NTFS mounting problems? No... and by the way, KDE desktop is WAY more functional than any Windows desktop version I have used up to date.
    Last edited by scarecrow; 28-11-2003 at 19:44.
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