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Fedora Core 1

This is my first venture into the world of Linux. Well, that's not entirely true I 've used Knoppix and couple of times but I've never had a working installation of Linux on any of my PCs before.

Last night I installed Fedora Core 1 on my secondary hard drive in a 29 Gig partition. Except for the partitioning process, took me awhile to understand how to use Disk Druid, the installation was flawless.
Fedora found all my devices, ATI 9600 video card, my Gigagit lan on the motherboard , Realtek motherboard based sound card and cofigured my internet connection without any assistance on my part.

The problem, when I got to the end of the installation I selected no when prompted to create a boot disk at the end of the installation process..
Afterwards I realized I had made a mistake. When I rebooted the system I found myself back in Windoze on my primary hard drive, Fedora didn't boot.
Fortunately, the bios on my computer let's you change the boot order of the hard drives on the system, so I entered bios and selected the secondary drive as the primary boot drive and booted sucessfully into Fedora and finished the installation process.

I installed Grub at the beginning of the Linux partition during installation not in the MBR, so when I reboot bios doesn't see Fedora. I was extremely nervous about overwritting the MBR on my primary drive and I wasn't entirely sure that when I was prompted by Grub to install in the MBR that it would install it on the MBR of my secondary drive.

One of my concerns is my girlfriend uses this PC too and I'm not sure what she would do when presented with the Grub boot screen if she has to reboot the computer if I'm not home.

I could leave my PC set to boot from the secondary drive to access my Fedora install and change the bios settings when I need to use Windoze. Or does it make more sense to re-install Grub so I can dual boot or just switch the bios settings as needed?

Does this make any sense?

Fedora is great, I'm planning on adding the Planet CCRMA upgrades so I'll have a Linux audio/video workstation when I finish.

:-)

dyne:bolic

d y n e : b o l i c -- A free multimedia studio in a GNU/Linux live CD

Is my latest foray into the alternative world of CD bootable operating systems.

From the web site, " dyne:bolic is shaped on the needs of media activists, artists and creatives, being a practical tool for multimedia production: you can manipulate and broadcast both sound and video with tools to record, edit, encode and stream, all using only free software!

I'm still learning what files I need to configure to make some devices work.
But what I like about dyne:bolic there's an easy "nesting" option that allows you to save your preferences to a usb key storage device or on your hard drive.
Being able to "nest" let's you customize the system as you learn and easily fix any errors and save important files.

Using dyne:bolic you could become a modern day Wolf Man Jack being able to create, mix audio/video content to your hearts desire.
Then broadcast or stream your music or ideas over the internet from a modern PC anywhere in the world with a CD and portable storage device.


"The Medium is the Message":Marshall McLuhan

Sixties TV

A friend and I were talking about some good early television from the sixties, the following are a few of my favorites growing up, seems strange these days but these shows at the time were among the best of the best.
The Ernie Kovaks Show smoking his Dutch Master cigar.
Loved his wife Edie Adams.

The original Tonight Show with Jack Paar was good.

I would do anything, as a kid, so I could stay up and watch Playboy After Dark. Hugh always had great musicians, Buddy Rich, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong to mention a few. The bunnies weren't to bad either.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents was a gem.

Another classic was Martin and Rowan's Laugh In.

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