

1. it appears that we cannot use fips on the XP partitions.

2. we downloaded a free trial version of "Parition Magic" from:

   http://www.soft32.com/download_151.html

3. a good source for info:

    http://www.phys.cwru.edu/~covault/linux_fedora_core3_x23.html

 he recommends using FAT32 for the re-partitioned disk.

 1. we ran DEFRAG before doing anything.

 2. we used "partition magic" to resize the C: drive 
    from 26 Gb down to 8 Gb.  we created a 1 Gb FAT32 partition
    which could be shared by both and then left the rest (20Gb)
    as "unallocated".





 to partition  magic:

google, "partition magic alternative"

try this one! --->  GPartd, http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/04/25/1917228
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php
http://partitionlogic.org.uk/


http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraMain


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download iso file (for DVD) from:

     http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution
     sudo mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/loop0 /mnt/cdrom/FC-6-i386-DVD.iso /mnt/floppy


    dir /mnt/floppy/
    total 247
drwxrwsr-x    7 root     root         4096 Oct 17 18:45 ./
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root         1024 Jan 18 14:53 ../
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           86 Oct 17 18:34 .discinfo
-rw-r--r--    4 root     root         5625 Oct  5 09:07 eula.txt
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root         2048 Oct 17 18:15 Fedora/
-rw-r--r--    4 root     root         2350 Oct 17 14:42 fedora.css
-rw-r--r--    8 root     root        18385 Apr  5  2005 GPL
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root         2048 Oct 17 18:15 images/
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         2048 Oct 17 18:15 isolinux/
-rw-r--r--    8 root     root        12667 Oct 17 14:42 README-Accessibility
-rwxr-xr-x    4 root     root       175924 Oct 17 14:42 RELEASE-NOTES-en_US.html*
drwxrwsr-x    2 root     root         2048 Oct 17 18:45 repodata/
-rw-r--r--    8 root     root         1910 Oct 15 12:07 RPM-GPG-KEY
-rw-r--r--    8 root     root         1706 Oct 15 12:07 RPM-GPG-KEY-beta
-rw-r--r--    8 root     root         1519 Oct 15 12:07 RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
-rw-r--r--    4 root     root         2043 Oct 15 12:07 RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-extras
-rw-r--r--    4 root     root         1722 Oct 15 12:07 RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-legacy
-rw-r--r--    8 root     root         1105 Oct 15 12:07 RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-rawhide
-rw-r--r--    8 root     root         1076 Oct 15 12:07 RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-test
-rw-r--r--    8 root     root         1232 Oct 15 12:07 RPM-GPG-KEY-rawhide
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Oct 17 18:15 stylesheet-images/
-r--r--r--    1 root     root         4310 Oct 17 18:45 TRANS.TBL

     cp /mnt/cdrom/FC-6-i386-DVD.iso .


sudo cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=5,0,0 FC-6-i386-DVD.iso 
cdrecord: No write mode specified.
cdrecord: Asuming -tao mode.
cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive dependent defaults.
cdrecord: Continuing in 5 seconds...
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a32-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 J

-------------
Alternativesrrrrrrg Schilling
Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support
Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original.
Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla
Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this version.
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '5,0,0'
scsibus: 5 target: 0 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.25
Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version (schily - Red Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.83-RH '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c      1.83 04/05/20 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling').
SCSI buffer size: 64512
atapi: 1
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 2
Response Format: 2
Capabilities   : 
Vendor_info    : 'HP      '
Identifikation : 'DVD Writer 630c '
Revision       : '8H26'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW.
Current: 0x001B
Profile: 0x002B 
Profile: 0x001B (current)
Profile: 0x001A 
Profile: 0x0014 
Profile: 0x0011 
Profile: 0x0010 
Profile: 0x000A 
Profile: 0x0009 
Profile: 0x0008 
cdrecord: Found DVD media: using cdr_mdvd.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc DVD-R(W) driver (mmc_mdvd).
Driver flags   : SWABAUDIO BURNFREE 
Supported modes: PACKET SAO
Drive buf size : 688128 = 672 KB
FIFO size      : 4194304 = 4096 KB
cdrecord: Drive does not support TAO recording.
cdrecord: Illegal write mode for this drive.

tried to use dvdrecord...got an error...googled:

     dvdrecord device type "Most CD-writers do overburning only on DAO mode"

so what i tried is:

sudo mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/loop0 FC-6-i386-DVD.iso /mnt/cdrom

 df -k
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1               505605    262868    216633  55% /
/dev/hda8             82842100  77481408   1152468  99% /data4
tmpfs                  2097152      2024   2095128   1% /tmp
/dev/hda5              5162796   3658524   1242016  75% /usr
/dev/hda3             10317860   2295084   7498656  24% /usr/local
/dev/hda7              2063504    320056   1638628  17% /var
urquell:/home          3939616   3297440    248224  93% /home
urquell:/var/mail       739840    155264    525376  23% /var/mail
urquell:/data          8705504   5055744   3562720  59% /data
urquell:/data2        31158368  25586624   5260160  83% /data2
/data4/sean/FC-6-i386-DVD.iso
                       3442574   3442574         0 100% /mnt/cdrom


ls cdrom
eula.txt    images/                    repodata/           RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-extras   RPM-GPG-KEY-rawhide
Fedora/     isolinux/                  RPM-GPG-KEY         RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-legacy   stylesheet-images/
fedora.css  README-Accessibility       RPM-GPG-KEY-beta    RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-rawhide  TRANS.TBL
GPL         RELEASE-NOTES-en_US.html*  RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora  RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-test


use:  growisofs -Z /dev/cdrom1 -R -J cdrom

Using IMAGE002.RPM;1 for  cdrom/Fedora/RPMS/ImageMagick-c++-devel-6.2.8.0-3.fc6.i386.rpm (ImageMagick-c++-6.2.8.0-3.fc6.i386.rpm)
Using IMAGE003.RPM;1 for  cdrom/Fedora/RPMS/ImageMagick-c++-6.2.8.0-3.fc6.i386.rpm (ImageMagick-6.2.8.0-3.fc6.i386.rpm)
/dev/cdrom1: "Current Write Speed" is 8.2x1385KBps.
  0.29% done, estimate finish Fri Jan 19 13:39:26 2007
  0.58% done, estimate finish Fri Jan 19 12:53:38 2007
  0.87% done, estimate finish Fri Jan 19 12:36:28 2007
  1.16% done, estimate finish Fri Jan 19 12:27:52 2007
  1.45% done, estimate finish Fri Jan 19 12:22:42 2007
 etc, etc.
 99.00% done, estimate finish Fri Jan 19 12:02:14 2007
 99.30% done, estimate finish Fri Jan 19 12:02:14 2007
 99.59% done, estimate finish Fri Jan 19 12:02:14 2007
 99.88% done, estimate finish Fri Jan 19 12:02:14 2007
Total translation table size: 0
Total rockridge attributes bytes: 242950
Total directory bytes: 376832
Path table size(bytes): 138
Max brk space used 18c000
1722142 extents written (3363 MB)
builtin_dd: 1722144*2KB out @ average 7.0x1385KBps
/dev/cdrom1: flushing cache
/dev/cdrom1: closing track
/dev/cdrom1: closing session
/dev/cdrom1: reloading tray


mount /mnt/cdrom1

-rw-r--r--    1 sburns   aster    708780032 Jan 19 14:25 FC-6-i386-disc1.iso
-rw-r--r--    1 sburns   aster    714240000 Jan 19 13:52 FC-6-i386-disc2.iso
-rw-------    1 sburns   aster    540517280 Jan 19 14:33 FC-6-i386-disc3.iso.part
-rw-r--r--    1 sburns   aster    715229184 Jan 19 13:46 FC-6-i386-disc4.iso
-rw-------    1 sburns   aster     5405360 Jan 19 14:33 FC-6-i386-disc5.iso.part
-rw-r--r--    1 sburns   aster    29900800 Jan 19 09:57 gparted-livecd-0.3.3-0.iso


sudo cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=2,0,0 -data FC-6-i386-disc1.iso

cdrecord: No write mode specified.
cdrecord: Asuming -tao mode.
cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive dependent defaults.
cdrecord: Continuing in 5 seconds...
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a32-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jrrrrrrg Schilling
Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support
Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original.
Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla
Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this version.
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '2,0,0'
scsibus: 2 target: 0 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.25
Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version (schily - Red Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.83-RH '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c 1
.83 04/05/20 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling').
SCSI buffer size: 64512
atapi: 1
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 0
Response Format: 1
Vendor_info    : 'SAMSUNG '
Identifikation : 'CDRW/DVD SM-348B'
Revision       : 'T503'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-ROM.
Current: 0x0009
Profile: 0x000A 
Profile: 0x0009 (current)
Profile: 0x0008 
Profile: 0x0010 
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc   CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags   : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE 
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R
Drive buf size : 1959936 = 1914 KB
FIFO size      : 4194304 = 4096 KB
Track 01: data   675 MB        
Total size:      776 MB (76:54.48) = 346086 sectors
Lout start:      776 MB (76:56/36) = 346086 sectors
Current Secsize: 2048
ATIP info from disk:
  Indicated writing power: 5
  Is not unrestricted
  Is not erasable
  Disk sub type: Medium Type A, low Beta category (A-) (2)
  ATIP start of lead in:  -11634 (97:26/66)
  ATIP start of lead out: 359848 (79:59/73)
Disk type:    Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar)
Manuf. index: 3
Manufacturer: CMC Magnetics Corporation
Blocks total: 359848 Blocks current: 359848 Blocks remaining: 13762
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed   8.0 in real TAO mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write    0 seconds. Operation starts.
Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
trackno=0
BURN-Free is OFF.
Performing OPC...
Starting new track at sector: 0
Track 01:  675 of  675 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 100%]   8.1x.
Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 708780032/708780032 (346084 sectors).
Writing  time:  581.217s
Average write speed   8.0x.
Min drive buffer fill was 99%
Fixating...
Fixating time:   32.655s
cdrecord: fifo had 11164 puts and 11164 gets.
cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 11072 times full, min fill was 92%.



sudo cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=2,0,0 -data FC-6-i386-disc2.iso


seeemed to have disc errors (corrupted media).  so did checksum...this
is:

sha1sum FC-6-i386-disc1.iso
cc503d99c9d736af9052904a6ab14931b0850078  FC-6-i386-disc1.iso
cc503d99c9d736af9052904a6ab14931b0850078  FC-6-i386-disc1.iso


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834fd761b9c0a5dc550d10d97307dac998103a68  FC-6-i386-rescuecd.iso
cc503d99c9d736af9052904a6ab14931b0850078  FC-6-i386-disc1.iso
3051710e6b2f1d17a14ede0ebb74761c29cda954  FC-6-i386-disc2.iso
5357ce21f8766db385b25923216a430b694bca5d  FC-6-i386-disc3.iso
d6133ab5ccf19431c14fd2ad85bce03c9834ef87  FC-6-i386-disc4.iso
22327af62d6376916e209b0c4934540e14d5664a  FC-6-i386-disc5.iso

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