[PlanetCCRMA] Ima Newbie; can't get through install of FC4,nomatter what I do! Help!

[Joe Fay]

Hey, Fernando, I'm an old guy!  I don't think I can unscrew the monitor that 
fast, and plug it in again...could I just turn it off?  ha ha ha ha.

Joe

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fernando Lopez-Lezcano" <nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU>
To: "Joe Fay" <wb0fhu@aol.com>
Cc: <planetccrma@ccrma.Stanford.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 2:22 PM
Subject: Re: [PlanetCCRMA] Ima Newbie; can't get through install of 
FC4,nomatter what I do! Help!


> On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 13:46 -0600, Joe Fay wrote:
>> > It would seem that there is a problem with your video hardware.
>> > Did you try to install in text mode?
>> Yes, I tried it with every argument I saw to run with it...still to no
>> avail!
>> > Once you boot into the first prompt (before it starts loading the 
>> > kernel
>> > and all that) type:
>> >  linux text
>> > That will start the text based installer.
>> >
>> > documented here:
>> > http://www.fedora.redhat.com/docs/fedora-install-guide-en/fc4/ch-beginninginstallation.html
>> >
>> > Just for reference some more options are documented here:
>> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AnacondaIsoLinux0ptions
>> >
>> > What to try depends on exactly what messages (if any) get printed 
>> > before
>> > things fail. I'm not sure of what is failing.
>>
>> Frankly, Fernando, I'm not sure, either.  I tried to use the Knoppix Live 
>> CD
>> that comes with the distro from the book I mentioned, but that worked 
>> just
>> fine, and found everything it needed to find.
>> >
>> > Assuming there's something wrong with support for your video card I
>> > would try:
>> >
>> > text* -- Enable text mode for install (default on HTTP and FTP
>> >         installs). Mutually exclusive with graphical
>> > skipddc* -- Skips DDC probe of the monitor
>> > lowres* -- Force GUI installer to run at 640x480
>>
>> Tried those, too.  No luck! Same white screen of death.
>>
>> Thanks, Fernando.  You have any other ideas to try?
>
> Nothing that occurs to me right now. What video hardware do you have?
>
> Something similar is happening here:
> http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Installing_Fedora_Core_4_on_a_ThinkPad_R30
> and the text install would seem to have helped...
>
> Again here:
> http://www.fedorazine.com/content/view/384/
> this guy unplugged the monitor to get things going! Maybe you could try
> this, wait till the hard disk activity stops and then reconnect it to
> see what happened...
>
> -- Fernando
>
>
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