Overview
My main purpose here is to describe the wireless setup.
Over the years when I've searched for help installing wireless
the bulk of the comments are along the line of "just use
ndiswrapper" or "you need the latest firmware". This is my personal
LINE-BY-LINE tedious breakdown of how to get it working.
Feel free to skip to the wireless part on
page 3
If you're looking to do this with Fedora Core 6, stop and
instead go HERE
System Summary
Dell Latitude C400 Notebook
866 MHz Pentium III (M)
512MB Sodimm PC133
100GB Hard Drive
Dell TrueMobile 1350 mini-pci card
Ethernet LAN used during install
Dual Boot:
Windows XP Professional (Dell's Default)
Fedora 7
Initial Setup:
I installed Windows first on 25GB of the drive. I prefer to use
grub as my boot loader. It does really need a quick
fix-up of the grub.conf file to be a convenient way to
dual-boot. More on that when we get to that step.
At this point I have a Windows partition, and a media partition
already set up with the rest of the disk unformatted (where
I'll install Fedora).
* Insert the F7 DVD and boot.
* If you haven't already allow the system to verify the
integrity of your install disk.
* Language - English, : Next :
* Keyboard - U.S. English, : Next :
* Install or Upgrade? - Install Fedora, : Next :
Partitioning:
The default option in the dropdown menu is "Remove all partitions
on selected drives and create default layout." If you're not
dual booting with Windows and have no files on the disk you
wish to save, this is fine. For me, no- I select "Create Custom
Layout" Don't worry about the "Advanced Storage Configuration"
options.
My Partitioning Scheme:
/dev/sda1 Windows 25 Gig (don't format!) /dev/sda2 Media 30 Gig (don't format!) /dev/sda3 SWAP 1024 MB format - (Virtual RAM) /dev/sda5 ext3 /boot 100 MB format - boot partition /dev/sda6 ext3 / (the rest) format - root directory
The installer will automatically build the home and system
directories under the root/ directory.
* Once you describe your partition scheme : Next :
* Select "The GRUB boot loader will be installed on /dev/sda"
If dual-booting, there should be two systems listed. One,
set as default, Fedora and Another called "other". Select
other and edit. Call it "Windows" and if desired, set it
as the default boot option. Don't worry about boot loader
password or advanced boot loader options. : Next :
Network, Timezone, Root Password
* Configure your settings normally. Probably Active on boot, Automatic
hostname via DHCP is okay.
* Note 1: Wireless card not recognized at this point
* Note 2: Your computer will hang for a minute trying
to connect to eth0 if you don't have it plugged in at
boot time. This can be annoying so keep it in mind when
deciding to activate it at boot time. You can easily change
this later though. : Next :
Set your timezone : Next :
Set your root password (mine is abc) : Next :
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