Installing Fedore Core 2 on my Athlon Computer

Startup

First problem is that my PS/2 mouse (any model) is not detected upon installation. Gargh! I installed text mode, working graphical which no mouse is not so nice, although possible.

I kept my old RedHat 9.0 installation just to be sure; OK, I've got two 30 Gig HDDs installed on my ASUS A7V and there's enough room to install everything off the FC2 DVD which I got as an ISO image and had burned with growisofs.

My partitioning is done as follows (/dev/hde is my first ATA100 hard drive):

	/dev/hdg1   *           1         260      131008+  83  Linux
	/dev/hdg2             261        1300      524160   83  Linux
	/dev/hdg3            1301        5363     2047752   82  Linux swap
	/dev/hdg4            5364       59560    27315288    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
	/dev/hdg5            5364       25681    10240240+  83  Linux
	/dev/hdg6           25682       27762     1048792+  83  Linux
	/dev/hdg7           27763       29843     1048792+  83  Linux
	/dev/hdg8           29844       59560    14977336+  83  Linux

After installation, it looks like this:

	panacea:~ # df -h
	Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
	/dev/hdg2             496M  174M  297M  37% /
	/dev/hdg1             124M  5.8M  112M   5% /boot
	none                  380M     0  380M   0% /dev/shm
	/dev/hdg8              15G   33M   14G   1% /home
	/dev/hdg7            1008M   33M  925M   4% /tmp
	/dev/hdg5             9.7G  5.9G  3.4G  64% /usr
	/dev/hdg6            1008M  223M  735M  24% /var

Fedora boots into the graphical desktop but mouse is still not working. OK, I can see that /dev/input/mice is used for all input stuff and this is the new Kernel 2.6 stuff that I don't know anything about. Hmpf, now where the heck have all the redhat-config programs gone?! Can't find them, they're obviously not present.

OK, mount my Fedore Core update directory on panacea via NFS and try the newest kernel... still no mouse. Ah! BIOS update. Ok, found that the BIOS version of my ASUS A7V is a 1007 and that the current BIOS is 1011. Downloaded that and AFLASH and bootet my machine in MS-DOS from floppy and updated the BIOS from the current a7v1011.awd. Reboot... nothing! Hm, ok, CMOS clear... Dammit! No Jumper, just two solder pads to short; got tweezers, shortened these and.. Ah! Reboot, re-entered the correct CMOS data and off it went. And voila! The mouse is working. Well whaddaya know?!

My current configurations were all stored in /home/uwe so I could just re-mount my old /home drive (/dev/hdg8) to /home and I got back my settings. But! X11 could not start my default session so I had to tell the graphical login screen to take xfce4 as my session; did that and everything was ok. Now to install the software that I need...