I am new to this and I need help really bad I am tired of windows and want to use fedora 8 and I heard of a program called wine that I can use for windows programs. I installed fedora blindly and it is working,but I don't know if I set up the partitions right and the sizes. i have a 150 gig HD and I do not plan on using windows if I can use wine. if I need windows, then I need to dual boot the system. I just want internet, email, play steam games, like counter strike, and source, and Hl2. Burn movies with dvd platinum. I am very windows savvy, a tech for 15 yrs but this is very greek to me and I do not want to mess anything up can I adjust the partitions I have or do I need to start fresh again. I have fedora 8 dvd and rescue cd.
What's the output of Code: df -h ? If you want to resize your partitions, take a look here: http://www.howtoforge.com/partitioning_with_gparted For a list of applications supported by Wine, take a look here: http://appdb.winehq.org/
code what code? like i said, i am new to linux with a 150 gig hd, what would be a good partition setup assuming i can use wine for my windows programs i will strictly run fedora and set it up using the ultimate desktop in your forums
do i run that in terminal? [ek49@radon ~]$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 57G 3.7G 51G 7% / /dev/sda1 21G 56M 20G 1% /boot tmpfs 1014M 12K 1014M 1% /dev/shm [ek49@radon ~]$
Your /boot partition is huge. It's enough if /boot has 150MB. You can use the rest for swap (about twice the size of your RAM) and the / partition.
thanks as for the partition, do I activate it, and what do i make with it, ntfs or fat 32 or something else? also i cannot get my nvdia icon to show up in my settings. I am on page 4 on ultimate desktop for fedora 8. and what i tried did not work according to the page I have the latest downloads for the driver and yum is installed. I have a Gforce 6800 gt / 256 meg video AGP any help would be great. Also, This is what I have now after running Gpart Hope I did it right smallest boot it would allow me is 737 meg: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 77G 4.3G 71G 6% / /dev/sda1 737M 28M 679M 4% /boot tmpfs 1014M 12K 1014M 1% /dev/shm [ek49@radon ~]$ and i have the rest as NTFS I have to format that right? also on shutting down I get all the services closing and I notice one error: "stopping irqbalance - Failed" Important?
What partition? You could try this: http://www.howtoforge.com/compiz-fusion-fedora8-nvidia-geforce-fx-5200 If you want to use it for Linux, then it's probably best to format it with ext3. That's not important as the system's shutting down anyway.
partitions i used gpart to create 4 partitions 1 boot 2 space for programs 3 swap file 4 ntfs part for windows if i need it
