On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 16:04 -0400, Jim wrote: > Mike Chalmers wrote: > > I am am going to install F9, when it comes out, on a Toshiba Satellite > > U205-S5034. I had a few questions that I was hoping y'all could > > answer. > > > > - Will Fedora automatically install drivers for the touchpad at the > > beginning of the installation so that I can use it as a mouse during > > the installation? > > > > > You Should have no problems with mouse, keyboard > > - Should the touchpad work fine? > > > Yes ! > > - Do I need to do anything about installing wireless drivers so that I > > can get internet access, or will Fedora take care of this for me? > > > > > That depends on what wireless card you have, Wireless drivers are the > biggest problem for Linux, What wireless adapter do you have ? do a > live cd first and do from a "terminal" do a /sbin/lspci -v and you can > see what hardware you have. > Post your Wireless card make,model, Copy and paste the contents of your > wirless card from /sbin/lspci -v > > - Does Fedora work with the Toshiba Satellite U205-S5034 good? > > > > > I think toshiba is somewhat of a problem for linux, Toshiba doesn't > support Linux, they are strictly $Windows. I've installed several Toshiba Satellites. They have the Atheros wifi chipset, which up to recently has required getting hold of the Madwifi drivers and installing. I think it's a bit easier now but I haven't done it in a while. > > - With Fedora 9 can I resize my Windows NTFS partition during the > > > You can download "Gparted" off the internet and burn a iso image and > that will do your resizing in NTFS. Or, if yor Windows partition is Vista, you can actually resize the partition from within Vista itself. I did this recently and it was really no hassle. It's somewhere in the System Admin panel IIRC. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
