Great success
I just logged into my install of Fedora 7 for the first time. And now I’m running the package updater. The updater is downloading .rpm files and installing them, 12 in all. Considering this OS has been out less than a week, that seems like a lot of updates, but I think a lot of them are standard, such as Firefox 2.0.0.4.
I fixed my DVD-ROM problem that I mentioned in the last post, but it’s only a temporary fix. Both my DVD-ROM drive and my CD burner were connected to the computer using the same ATA cable, and the CD burner (device 1) was working while the DVD drive (device 0) was not. So I simply rewired the drives so that the DVD drive was device 1 and the CD burner was not connected at all, and then the DVD drive started working. And in fact, I was able to boot directly from the install DVD, as specified in my BIOS, without the use of the Smart Boot Manager floppy. So I was able to successfully install Fedora, but the next thing that needs doing is to rewire the drives and get them both to work.