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Ok, a little bit happier, I can now successfully get up into a gui on FC5. In the xorg.conf file I changed the driver from "nv" to "vesa" and that was that. Now comes the parts where I am on shakier grounds. I now need to get the repos set-up so I can get drivers for my video card and sound card (Sound Blaster X-Fi) as I think it might be unsupported . Any hints/ advice that might help me out? Be much abliged

Ok, I'll give that a try. Will the vesa setting conflict with my mobo (ASUS A8N SLI powered by NVIDIA nForce4 SLI) built in video driver?

I figured out what I was doing wrong on my FC5 installation. I had to go switch around which controllers my hd's were connected to. I can now boot into Win XP normally, however when I boot up FC I get command prompt login. Still can only log-in as root, if I type startx to bring up a gui all I get is a black screen. I am pretty sure it has something to do with my video card not being supported by FC5. It's a nVidia GeForce 6600, is there any way I can get the driver for it installed? I know the repo I need, but I don't know how to set up any repos through command line, but guessing it would have to be done through #vi.

lol, that is pretty funny. I didn't even realize I typed that, guess thats what happens when you stay up a little to late to comprehend. As for the boot order I want to use the drive I am installing FC5 on as my primary drive. I have the FC5 hd in SATA 1 and my Win XP hd in SATA 3, SATA 1 being first primary and SATA 3 being second primary. I already know that my video card is not supported off the get go but I can download the driver from the website. When I originally installed FC5 on my system, I had the drive it was being installed onto as the primary boot hd with win xp as the fall back drive. As for the login name, it never asked me for one. It asked for a password to protect the kernel and one other item, cant remember exactly what it was at this time. On the subject of command line promp, I'm comfortable with the idea of it, just I haven't messed with it in so long I would probably need a walk through of what to do so I don't mess my system up.

My system is a custom built system. Here is what I currently have running in it: mobo: Asus A8N NVIDIA socket 939 w/ SLI (not using SLI) processor: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2.0 GHz 64 bit processor power supply: Ultra X2 PSU HDD: 2x 250 GB drives (SATA) ram: 2x 512 MB sound card: Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic PCI card video card: eVGA GeForce 6600 LE/ 256MB DDR PCIE Optical Drive: 2x DVD+-RW and 1 DVD/CD-rom drive USB keyboard and mouse As for how I go about booting, if I want Win XP to boot, then I change the HDD boot order in bios. Otherwise it will boot the linux HDD. When I boot up the linux HDD here is what comes up: Booting up Fedora Core with a 5 second delay so I have the option of going to the HDD selection screen. On the selection screen I have FC (2.6.15-1.2054_FC5) Windows XP (named this in set up, default was Other) Upon choosing the FC boot: It decompresses linux and boots up the kernel then says MP System not supported by PSB BIOS structure. Not sure what that means. Otherwise all other parts of the boot are good. Do I need to pass special instructions to the kernel during boot? After it boots all systems I get another screen that reads: Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux) Kernel 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 on an X86_64 CPE-70-95-191-7 login: If I enter a login and press enter it will then ask for a password, I have tryed all passwords and login names I have on my system to which no worked. If I boot to Win XP I get the following info on screen: Booting 'Windows XP' rootnoverify (hd1,0) chainloader +1 Any idea what this is referring to?

Hi, I'm completely new to using linux. I am running two 250 gig hd's using SATA. I have WinXP (32 bit) on the first and Fedora Core5 (64 bit) on the second. Fedora Core installed fine, GRUB on first part of boot sector not MBR, but when I go to set it up it asks for a login name and then a password but I don't think I have set one up, unless it is using one of the two passwords I set up during the install. My other problem is I can't load WinXP from the linux side, it hangs my system out. Could this be from running a 64 bit and 32 bit OS? If more info is needing such as exactly what it is asking for or where it hangs I can post that at a later date.

ok, once more another newbie to the whole linux deal. I am running two 250 gig hd's using SATA. I have WinXP (32 bit) on the first and Fedora Core5 (64 bit) on the second. Fedora Core installed fine but when I go to set it up it asks for a login name and then a password but I don't think I have set one up, unless it is using one of the two passwords I set up during the install. My other problem is I can't load WinXP from the linux side, it hangs my system out. Could this be from running a 64 bit and 32 bit OS? If more info is needing such as exactly what it is asking for or where it hangs I can post that at a later date.