installing fedora9

Hi
It has been a very long time since i blogged. I finished my 6th sem eng exams which went ok came home for one month holidays.
Decided to upgrade the home pc operating system from fedroa 6 to fedora 9 as my system was pretty old(intel celeron, 466Mhz,256Mb Ram,80Gb hard disk)
to speed the process fedora 9 was necessary.The dvd version was available in the linux for you magazine so brought it for for 100 bucks.
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Before installing try to make a back up of all important files in case if the system crashes or power failure during installation back up files will be helpful.

Boot the dvd disk directly during installation it will ask for many choices select custom partioning the hard disk as it is necessary (please note that this is for a 80gb hard disk).
1) create /boot directory give around 100 mb
2) create /home directory and give around say 40gb depending on the number of users
3)create a swap partion and give it a twice the size of ram
4)and the remaining free space will be taken under the root directory'/' by default
select the different packages you want to install and let the installation begin. for my system it took around two hours
fedora 9 has two versions of desktop versions gnome and kde both are popular
versions
Playing Audio and video in fedora 9
Though it had many audio and video palying softwares they had only limited codecs (free codecs) they didn't play mp3,dvds properly and it didn't have mplayer which was present in fedora 6 by default.
had to install mplayer from the net
usually installing is a difficult process in linux as it is not gui(graphical user interface).
Try for rpm packages as they are easy to install. Search for mplayer fedora9 rpm package in the net and select the livina mplayer version it is the latest version (the version is mplayer.i386 )
after downloading extract the package to your home folder.Now open then terminal and use yum installer give the command
yum install mplayer.i386 --enablerepo=*.i386
it will automatically package all the files and other repositaries it will the mplayer fo graphical version of it try
yum install mplayer-gui.i386 --enablerepo=*.i386 it will install it

for playing dvd and vcd's use the command from terminal
mplayer dvd://1
fedora has some great softwares try it once