Wednesday, September 23, 2009

I installed Fedora 11

The Atuunmal Equinox was a day ago.

I am editing this file using GNU Emacs on a newly installed Fedora 11 on a Compaq Presario with 3 GB ram and Vista Installed on a 250GB disk:

[brucesalem@fedora ~]$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg_fedora-lv_root
                       45G  4.4G   39G  11% /
/dev/sda3             194M   15M  169M   9% /boot
tmpfs                 1.4G  396K  1.4G   1% /dev/shm
[brucesalem@fedora ~]$ date
Wed Sep 23 17:17:23 PDT 2009
[brucesalem@fedora ~]$ 

I like the quality of the font. This software is newly installed from a Red Hat repository. It was not part of the install from DVD.

I have to check the boot. I didn't notice that it allowed me to boot Vista, and I need to check that the Vista files are still there, so I can copy or write to DVD what I want to save from there.

Since the Norton Anti Virus program expired, I wanted to get Linux installed here since I am vorried about a Windows system hanging out on the internet, I'd much rather have Linux with firewall and security turned on.

I am not sure at this instant that I didn't clobber the vista install.

The file browser saw the Vista partition and mounted it. I was able to look at a file that lives on this disk.

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