The Fedora Experience Continued

Well, I managed to get a cabled connection with a crossover cable to a windows computer. That allowed me to update fedora’s repos and install ndiswrapper and a couple of programs. Once I installed the video drivers, I was able to get the graphical user interface (GUI) running. Then I was able to create my user account but had problems loading my home directory. I tried correcting the file permissions and user and group owners., still no go. Eventually, I got annoyed of the file manager’s behavior. When I navigate to a folder or even the parent directory of the current directory, it would open a new window of the file manager.

Since fedora was driving me crazy from the start, I decided to try something else. I know I probably didn’t give fedora a chance but since I wanted to use the same user directory for both linux distros, it had to work together with ubuntu.

Fedora 7

Today, I’ve been trying to get fedora up and running so I can get my other operating systems back up and running. As you can tell from my previous post, I didn’t have success in reorganizing my system. Since I have a DVD already downloaded, I just popped it in and installed it to some empty space I left from the reorganizing task. The first try was ok but I had no internet access and I had no idea how to enable my wired ethernet to connect to a nearby computer. I’m giving it a second try and hopefully, it’ll have internet access so I can download the ndiswrapper and install my windows drivers for my wireless card. Then, I can work on getting my video drivers working so I can have my pretty graphics.

If you would like to try Fedora, you can download it here. Cheers!