Hi my name is rutvik. I installed fedora in my hp laptop one week ago. I like it a lot but a am having 3 problems with this. 1- i don't get how to install java and complile the classes in java idont know what to install to make it work. 2- i have an external hard drive and it is formated into ntfs when i try to connect it to my pc it is not mounting the hard drive. 3- i dont get how to connect to my wireless router. i any one help me please........ sorry my english is very bad sorry.......

I am not very experienced with Fedora, but I have heard people say that it is not one of the most beginner friendly distributions. May I suggest you consider installing Mandriva Linux instead? (http://www.mandriva.com/). It is similar to Fedora in many respects. But Mandriva is very user friendly out of the box and comes with many tools pre-installed which make these things fairly easy. I assume that you are learning to program in Java? I'm not sure exactly what the packages are called in Fedora or Mandriva (since I switch to Debian a while ago), but you should be looking for something like javacc for the compiler and java-sun-6-jre (or something close to that) for the run-time environment. Once you've install javacc, you can compile .java files from the command-line with 'javac (path-to-file)', I believe. Then you would run the class files with 'java (name of class)'. So if you have created a ,java file called Example.java: $ javac Example.java $ java Example

I installed other linux distrubeters i am just new to fedora not to linux. thanks. Does any one know how to install java in fedora and get it working and set the class paths. And help me connect to wireless and connect my hard drive. sorry my english is very bad sorry.......

Hi rutvik, java should be installed in fedora by default. And which desktop are you using? If kde, then simply launch KNetworkmanager and it will list all available wireless connections. And try this for that pesky NTFS drive http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2007/09/18/mounting-a-windows-xp-ntfs-partition-in-linux/

I am using gnome. I installed java in fedora i dont know how to set class paths and compile .java to .class and run them do you know how to do that.

I tried http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2007/09/18/mounting-a... this link and it works thanks a lot.