The problem with the DVD is that, I needed a driver disk for it to pick up my DVD drive.
well that was ok because I installed off the first to cd's (minimal), then I put the DVD in and upgraded from there.

It all went fine untill my keyboard started going funny. The keyboard just didnt work at all, instead it was moving my mouse (Advent Laptop). I restarted and booted up using the normal kernel instead of the smp kernel (P4 HT), and it seems to have worked.

Is this a problem within the smp kernel? if so then i will recompile the kernel. If not then anyone have any suggestions?

I installed FC3 X86_64 from DVD. The install seemed to go well, but post
set up has been a problem. First problem was the the mysql server didn't
get installed. I brought up the add/remove package tool to try to install it,
but it claimed that mysql was on cdrom 4, and refused to install it from the DVD.

I tried to find apt somewhere, but all the rpms I could find wanted librpm-4.3,
which they didn't seem to find on my system.

Finally, I'm not familiar with yum, and couldn't figure out how to get it to
straighten any of this out.

Other than the issues of getting anything other than what it wanted to install
installed, FC3 seems to be a nice system.

FC 3 was great ...... but had some problems with gnome . After 3 days of officially using it , gnome couldn't start due to some Pressesion problem ...

I've been running FC3 since it was released and I'm really happy with the release. There were some small issues that I have worked out and some that I haven't yet:

- up2date: Alert icon would display red indicating an update, but when I ran up2date it reported that my system was up to date. I discovered that if I waited a number of hours (4 to 8) and ran up2date, the updates would get installed. I assume that this is a lag with the mirrors.

- apt and synaptic: One of the first things that I do when installing Fedora is install apt and synaptic. It took a while to get the repositories configured properly. Actually it took a while for the repositories to get into place. This wasn't a problem with one big exception - a couple of times Synaptic was updated and the update changed the repositories back to FC2 repositories. It isn't obvious that this has happened. I caught it after I executed a smart update and happened to notice something like 230 something updates were tagged. Whoa.... wait a minute! Looking at the updates tagged it probably wouldn't have caused too many headaches....except that kernel update that was tagged.

I also cannot get several packages installed that I was playing with before upgrading. Rekall will not compile and make and Kexi crashes. I'd really like to get these working as I really would like to locate a replacement for MSAccess, but it isn't critical.

The repository issue seems to have worked itself out - I haven't caught any problems since early last week. Samba works fine and I'm able to access all of my shares and shared devices. As a matter of fact I am thinking about installing FC3 on my notebook - an HP7000 series. I've just got to get a better handle on whether I'm going to run into issues with Nvidia or not. To be honest I haven't had time to look into it.

Also, I'm running FC3 on a 440mhz PIII and some packages like Firefox and Open Office take some time to load. I'm discounting the speed issue to my processor and hoping that everything will run a bit faster on my notebook. I didn't time any loads, however FC3 seems faster than SuSE 9.1 Pro on the same system. As I said at the beginning of this post, I'm really happy with the release - the team did a good job putting this release together.

I can't comment 100% on your up2date problem, but only based on the info you gave, I'd say your use of up2date and apt-rpm at the same time are causing your problems unless you are using the same repos, which I still cannot confirm would work without some issues. But again, I can't say 100%. If you are using diffrent repos you will make a huge mess for yourself.

On the speed issue, learn to compile a kernel and it will always take care of 90% of all speed issues. The other 10% is simply turning off extra services that are not needed. One of me computers is a Celeron 400 with an 2.4 kernel but the latest packages and it runs quite well with a custom kernel.

I installed FC3 from a burned DVD ISO that took me 4 hours, 12 minutes to download. The installation went well and everything but three things bothered me:

1) YUM is broken.
2) It can't see any drive formatted with NTFS (Fedora is the LAST distro that cannot see NTFS).
3) Fedora completely ignores any DV 2.0-compliant device plugged into the firewire port.

This last point is a MAJOR issue for me. For one who owns my own video production company and advocates Linux for digital video editing, Fedora has a long way to go.

I run an i686 used to use Mandrake 9.2 for i586 and ever since installing FC3 i386 my box runs alot slower than with Mandrake. Can anyone say the've had the same?; how i could fix this?; why it is like this? Apart from being noticibly slower than Mandrake the power managment works for my laptop (Dell Inspiron 2500) which is good. Ive just finished my reformatt so i could dual boot with xp and decided to change to FC3 while i was at it. Is there anything bettter about FC3 than Mandrake 10 even? I know FC3 is still in early stages but when can i expect my simple x bugs to be exterminated?

Ha, i sound like i paid for Linux.

Doh! Too bad to hear that number 3 is the major issue because 1 and 2 are very easily fixed. In what way is YUM not working for you? Are you having a hard time using the DVD as a package repo.

If I'm not mistaken, 9.2 uses kernel 2.4 correct? A newer kernel can be made to run like a 2.4 kernel if you know how to compile one. 2.4 to 2.6 comparison is alot like comparing (eek!) Windows 3.1 to XP. Windows 3.1 will be faster on the same machine, but XP provides so many more features that it makes it more than worth it (such as working Power Management).

Its worth repeating, however, that learning how to compile your own kernel will make your Linux experience that much better!

You didn't mention what 'X' issues you were having so it's hard to give you an idea of how to fix them or bug report them.

Here are my first dealings with FC3:

+The install hung on me the first time through about the middle of disk 1. I restarted the install and had no issues after that.
+ My CD-RW and CD-R drives no longer read any audio discs. This worked fine under FC2 and other distros. Data CDs are fine but not audio.
+ Rhythmbox crashes on every audio file I throw at it but xmms works just fine.
+ My Sandisk 8 in 1 card reader works perfectly. So perfectly that when I insert my CF card into the reader Gnome tells me it looks like I'm trying to import photos and asks if I want to import them. I click on Yes and gThumb opens up and I can drag my files onto my hard drive.
+ gThumb crashes( I assume it is the gphoto libraries causing the issue) when I try to connect my Cannon Powershot A75 and import photos. This worked just fine using Ubuntu
+ nvidia drivers were a pain to track down and get working because the latest drivers broke my TNT2 card. The old nvidia drivers wouldn't compile. Searching these forums helped me find working drivers

Those are my initial workings with FC3. I'm not sure if I'll stick with it or not.

I probably will stick with it. The audio CD stuff can be avoided by ripping the CD and playing it in xmms. I like being on the bleeding edge and I like that bug fixes are continuously issued for the Fedora Cores. Ubuntu doesn't do bug fixes, only security updates. What I really should do is get off my arse and start pitching in with bugzilla reports. I have no good reason not to.

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Yes I agree I liked the Blue Curve desktop settings better in FC2 then FC3. I also changed it back like it was in FC2.

As pointed out earlier in one of the above posts the mount points have been changed no longer /mnt/floppy but now media/floppy. I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand I can see how it would be easer for a newbie to learn this. On the other hand I know every time I try to mount a floppy from the command line I will type mount /mnt/floppy and then remember its mount /media/floppy. I just know its going to be a small pain. so I changed my fstab file and created the directories under /mnt

I installed FC3 last night and did the Updates after a reboot my file system crashed and had to be repaired manualy using fsck.

I like the new foxfire browser that come with FC3 I just wish all the java pluggins ect... where installed. I don't like the fact that you can't go to help, pluggins in foxfire and see a list of pluggins you have installed. When I go to a page that needs a pluggin foxfire ask me to install the pluggen and then fails to install it.

So far Iike FC3 other then a few miner things

I am comparing my review of Fedora Core 3 to the version I just wiped out. Redhat Enterprise (RHEL3) workstation, I like Fedora better than it, even with the bugs, there was not much available on the net for the Enterprise version with Fedora there is help and tons of apps, video players, music players and office suites.

Overall, pretty nice!

Im like a first time Linux user and used Suse first .. i liked it more because of KDE, FC3 doesn't come with Kwrite/Edit?

ah thanks for the reply GHIGHT. Yes Mandrake 9.2 When i you make a 2.6 kernel run like a 2.4, would i still have my working power management if i did the compile- to-act-like-kernel 2.6 ?

I am a new user, so not sure how bad these X bugs can be, so mine maybe relitivly small in comparison, but anyway:

If i take my mouse curser to either the top-left or top-right corner of any window so that i can resize the window at hand the mouse pointer turns from an arrow to a diagonal (/) or (\)with an arrow at each end of it which is correct. My bug is when i move the mouse curser down to the cross ready to close the window the cuser stays as a (/) instread of refreshing back to a pointer. I can still close the window, it just doesnt refresh the cuser icon.

I have re-written the above as best i can, hope it makes sense. Thankyou for any replies as to either fix this or report this bug.

I used FCa3 for about a month and then unistalled it. Ive been doing a "round robin" of linux distributions for the past 6 months or so to find that ultimate distribution that I would be completely satisfied with. My search has ended with Gentoo linux. Runner-ups are Slackware, and for newbs or gui fiends Suse linux is pretty cool.

As far as im concerned Gentoo linux is ultimate, but we're all entitled to our opinions....