Niwrad

Neither the creat or open commands seem to be supported on Fedora, what are their substitutes? (I've only used Unix systems before and this is my first time using the Linux command prompt)

Check your man pages for the exact flags, they tend to vary. (man tar -or- atropos tar)

Well, on Darwin you use: %: tar -xvzf filename The -x flag indicates that you wish to x-tract the file(s) The -v flag means "verbose" The -z flag ****omit this flag if the file is not compressed**** The -f flag tells tar to extract from a file and not a tape archive w/ secure shell I assume that you just use the above command, given that the computer you are interacting with is Unix based.

I have a dual boot Fedora Core 4/Windows XP SP2 Dell Dimesion 4400 w/ a Pentium 4 (bought around 2002). My apt has one cable outlet on the other side, and its on the oppsite side of my room, so I set up a wireless network for my laptop. Anyways, I want to get my Dell machine hooked up to the Internet and I was just curious if there are wireless cards that play more friendly with Linux than others. Thanks for any suggestions.

Alright, I'm able to toggle between the two HDs in my bios and switch them off to get the OS working that I want. Howerver, what I really want is an OS selection menu to boot up when the computer is turned on. How can I set this up?

However, relating to this thread, I set up Windows on one hard drive and Fedora Core 4 on another. When I set up XP I made its hard drive master, and then when I set-up Fedora I made its respective hard drive master (with the other set as slave in both instances). The problem now is that I need to change the hard drive hierarchies to load the respective OS's (big pain in the butt). How does one consolidate?

Check out this site for a thorough guide: http://www.overclockersclub.com/guides/dual_boot_fedora_xp.php

I have a NVIDIA video card, and on a side note, I successfully installed Fedora Core 3. However, I prefer Mandrake somewhat to Fedora, and if we can get it to work, I'd rather use that OS. If not, oh well, Fedora still kicks @$$. Also, I'm still left wondering why Mandrake isn't taking to my computer. I'll try your suggestion, thanks for the assist.

I slowed down the burning speed to 4x and the install still suffered the same error. Thinking that it may be the burning software, I downloaded Dragon Burn and tried that, still the same error. I then thought to try a different source for the iso download, and again had the same error. Windows XP and Linux Live OSs run fine, what is it w/ Mandrake? I think I'll give Fedora Core 3 a try. Any more suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you so much danleff, your comments really helped. I've been burning the CDs at 16x so I think that may be the problem. I can't explain to you how much stress you have saved me.

Meant "USB" not "USD" of course. And more exactly, the install is having problems installing into memory. When I switch to the terminal it gives the message: "EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended" e2fsck is a linux filesystem isn't it? Are linux installs always this frustrating?

To start off, I have read the other posts on this subject, but they didn't help too much. I have two Western Digital HDDs, one 40GB and one 250GB along with a 2002 Dell Dimension 4400 box w/ DVD and CD drives. I have a few apps that I need XP for, but would like to make Mandrake my primary operating system. So I downloaded a 2GB 3-disk version of Mandrake 10.1 from linuxiso.org. Next, I set up XP on the 40GB HD, letting this hard drive be master for set-up purposes and am now trying to install Mandrake. I have tried two approaches with both hierarchial configs for the HDDs: 1. Install from XP....Problem: Disc loads the graphics, but the install graphic does not respond to mouse clicks. 2. Boot from CD....Problem: Graphics load, allows me to select install, searches for USD devices, searches memory, then encounters a fatal error and initiates a termination sequence. Oh, forgot to metion that I used OS X 10.4 Disk Utility to burn the ISO images to disk. Thanks for any help or references.