continuing troubles with Fedora

[Dom Latter]

Simon Andrews wrote:
> On 13 Oct 2009, at 11:01, Paul Williams wrote:
> 
>>      Device  Boot           Start       End     Blocks     ID      
>> System
>> /dev/sda1                             1      192     153600      

Strange, the reported size is off by about a factor of ten from
what it should be, for the number of cylinders.

> OK, so there's something odd going on here.  Your windows install  
> appears to be on /dev/sda2, but there is this small partition before  
> it.  I'm not sure what this partition is (anyone else know?), but  
> these little partitions are often installed by computer vendors with  
> dignostic software or something similar.  

Or possibly a suspend-to-disk partition.  Or it may be a Linux swap
partition that somehow got corrupted.  I can't see a swap and I'd
be surprised if Fedora doesn't create one by default.

> I've used the emacs editor if these instructions since you seemed to  
> have problems when using gedit before.  If you don't have emacs  
> installed you'll need to do:
> 
> su -c "yum -y install emacs"

I'd strongly suggest leaving emacs alone until the system is working
to your satisfaction and you've got the time...

"nano" should be installed by default, and is a very quick and simple
editor with a help screen for the most important magic runes always
visible.  "joe" is another excellent alternative.