Friday, January 11, 2008

Fedora 8 - Werewolf on Compaq Presario V3000



The Beginning
Fedora 8, after tackling for about a week with my perl download manager, downloaded Fedora8 Werwolf, (Fedora8.iso 3.18 GiB). Phew! As expected the SHA1SUM did not match the expected one.
What to do? Redownloading the 3.18 GiB is silly. So...
BitTorrent : Torrent files contain SHA signatures of all the pieces of information, so downloaded the fedora8.torrent file, checked for SHA1 mismatches in all the pieces in the download.
Figured out that just around 12MB of the download is corrupted. Easily replaced the portion and voilla finished Fedora8.iso!! Learned a lot thank you fedora ;)

First Impressions
Well to start with it detected my Video Card, nVidia GeForce Go 6150, all of my hard drives and partitions, including NTFS drives without any additional software install. It looks classy not much fuzz.
But
as usually there is the problem of mouse disappearing, and desktop-effects cannot be enabled!
- the Mouse Disappearing can be fixed as shown in my previous post.
- MP3 doesn't play right out of the box :(

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