Installing Fedora
core 1 on
LAPTOP IQON QDM8524
Spec:
This laptop is a iqon QDM8524
Intel pentium 4 processor 2.6GHZ
15 TFT LCD display
512 MB DDR RAM
30GB hard drive Fujitsu MHT200AT
DVD/CDRW Drive slimtype COMBO LSC-24082K
56k Modem
Soundblaster Pro compatible sound Sillicon integrated Systems [SIS]
Ultra AGP graphics supporting Real 2D/3D Graphics SIS 650
1x IEE 1394 Firewire Port
4 X USB ports 2.0
10/100 Lan SIS900
TV out
1 X PCMCIA
1 X IRD
INSTALL:
I have made this laptop to be dual boot Windows xp and
Fedora core 1
which I usually use.
My first problem was to make room to fit fedora So I used the tool
partition magic 8
I was able to resize the hard drive I freed up 6gig for linux on a
30gig drive
I downloaded the three iso images from heanet.ie because I am based in
Dublin Ireland
I have broadband I just let the computer run over night with the
download.
CD:INSTALL
I then recorded the images to cd using nero 6.
I setup my laptop to boot from cd and inserted disk1 of fedora core 1
In the install I made sure I selected KDE desktop ,gnome desktop
,server
admin tools ,Kernel development
you may think you dont need the Kernel development but when you want to
compile a
program it will be required
the install went very smooth all hardware nearly dectected apart from
my modem and ir devices
and I do not have 3d support which is a pity because I wanted to play
tux racer.
MP3:setup
The first thing I noticed I was missing mp3 playing support using xmms
so I download this
file for redhat 9 but it does work for Fedora
xmms-mpg123-1.2.7-21.i386.rpm and it play my mp3 fine.
DVD:support
The second thing I wanted was DVD playback I loaded mplayer and it
plugins and this
plays avi, divx and many more when I tried
to play a dvd none
of the menus would appear in most cases the film started up . But
in others EG cast away it faild to play
so I downloaded orgle another dvd player but does not play video files
but perfect for dvd
because it play all menu from dvd and it does play cast away
These or the files I used
MPLAYER:Files
mplayer-0.90-1.i386.rpm
mplayer-codecs-linux-real-9.0-2.i386.rpm
mplayer-codecs-linux-xanim-1.0-2.i386.rpm
mplayer-common-0.90-1.i386.rpm
mplayer-font-iso1-1.0-3.noarch.rpm
mplayer-font-iso2-1.0-3.noarch.rpm
mplayer-font-iso9-1.0-3.noarch.rpm
mplayer-font-koi8r-1.0-3.noarch.rpm
mplayer-gui-0.90-1.i386.rpm
mplayer-skin-default-1.0-2.noarch.rpm
OGLE:Files
libdvdcss-1.2.8-1.fr.i386.rpm
ogle_gui-0.9.2-ogle1.i386.rpm
libdvdread-0.9.4-ogle1.i386.rpm
xvattr-1.3-ogle1.i386.rpm
ogle-0.9.2-ogle1.i586.rpm
The third thing I wanted was cdwriter supported so I download
K3b k3b-0.10.3-1.xcyb.8.fc1.i386.rpm from
http://k3b.plainblack.com/index.pl/home
I ran this command as root rpm -ihv k3b-0.10.3-1.xcyb.8.fc1.i386.rpm
and I got dependency errors
d3lib is needed by
k3b-0.10.3-1.xcyb.8.fc1
libid3-3.8.so.3 is needed by
k3b-0.10.3-1.xcyb.8.fc1
libmad is needed by
k3b-0.10.3-1.xcyb.8.fc1
libmad.so.0 is needed by
k3b-0.10.3-1.xcyb.8.fc1
so after much searching I download these files
id3lib-3.8.3-5.fr.i386.rpm
libmad-0.15.0-0.b.dag.rh90.i386.rpm
K3b:Files
k3b-0.10.3-1.xcyb.8.fc1.i386.rpm
id3lib-3.8.3-5.fr.i386.rpm
libmad-0.15.0-0.b.dag.rh90.i386.rpm
I installed the extra libraries then the installed went fine
rpm -ihv k3b-0.10.3-1.xcyb.8.fc1.i386.rpm
OFFICE:
The next thing I wanted was a office suite. I have a copy of
Staroffice 7
I install it of cd using the command ./setup -net so I would only have
to
install it once in case I have more
then one user on the laptop.
USBPEN:DRIVE 256MB
My usbpen worked perfect for me first time made a directory in
/mnt/usbpen
I put it into the usb port I issued this command as root fdisk -l
so I could see what device the usbpen was attached to
Disk /dev/sda: 264 MB, 264110080 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 511
cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 =
516096 bytes
Device Boot
Start End
Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1
*
1 511
257512+ 6 FAT16
I then type the command mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbpen
and I was able to browse the usbpen drive like any other disk.
