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Fedora Core3

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I installed Fedora Core3 to the note PC at home, but the installer is aborted with the following messages.

Assertion (heads < 256) at disk_dos.c:486 in function
probe_partition_for_geom() failed.

I knew that many users had same problem at the Bugzilla of Redhat, and I decided to delete the recovery partition for the WindowsXP. I could run Fedora Core1 on the same PC, so I deleted the all partition. Then I started the installer of Fedora Core3, and I installed it with no problem

First, I installed the latest NVIDIA driver for the GeForce 6200 because the Fedora didn't recognize the new graphic chipset. According to the readme and the mailing list, I changed the Xorg configuration as the following.

# diff -ubBd /etc/X11/xorg.conf.nv /etc/X11/xorg.conf
--- xorg.conf.nv        2005-03-12 06:56:41.292116808 +0900
+++ xorg.conf   2005-03-12 04:58:21.292914376 +0900
@@ -27,7 +28,7 @@
        Load  "record"
        Load  "freetype"
        Load  "type1"
-       Load  "dri"
+#      Load  "dri"
 EndSection

 Section "InputDevice"
@@ -71,6 +72,13 @@
        Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
 EndSection

+Section "Modes"
+       Identifier     "16:10"
+       ModeLine     "1680x1050" 147.1 1680 1784 1968 2256 1050 1051 1054 1087
+       ModeLine     "1680x1050" 188.1 1680 1800 1984 2288 1050 1051 1054 1096
+       ModeLine     "1680x1050" 214.5 1680 1800 1984 2288 1050 1051 1054 1103
+       ModeLine     "1680x1050" 256.2 1680 1808 1992 2304 1050 1051 1054 1112
+EndSection

 Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
+       UseModes     "16:10"
        HorizSync    31.5 - 90.0
        VertRefresh  60.0 - 60.0
        Option      "dpms"
@@ -82,9 +90,8 @@
 EndSection

 Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
-       Driver      "nv"
+       Driver      "nvidia"
        VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
        BoardName   "nVidia GeForce 2 Go"
 EndSection
@@ -93,7 +104,7 @@
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Videocard0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
+       Option     "NoLogo" "true"
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     16
-               Modes    "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
+               Modes    "1680x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
 EndSection

Next, the wireless network card, Intel 2915ABG, wasn't recognized too. Then, I installed the wireless driver as the following steps.

# uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.9-1.667 #1 Tue Nov 2 14:41:25 EST 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
# iwconfig --version
iwconfig  Wireless-Tools version 27
          Compatible with Wireless Extension v11 to v17.
Kernel    Currently compiled with Wireless Extension v16.
# tar xvfz ipw2200-1.0.1.tgz
# cd ipw2200-1.0.1
# make
# make install
# tar xvfz ipw2200-fw-2.2.tgz
# cp *.fw /lib/firmware/
# reboot
 ........
 Intel 2915ABG is recognized :-)  
 ........
# system-config-network