On Friday 03 October 2008 09:11:36 Michael Magua wrote: > Probably due to the ATI graphics card, is it possible to specify vesa > driver as a boot option i.e "linux vesa". > > Alternatively do a text install, at the prompt use > > linux text > As I said I tried the text based install and got the same problem. When I boot from the boot.iso image how do I tell it to use the vesa driver. If I press <tab> to edit the boot line then adding vesa doesn't work. As a workaround I'm doing a live CD install on the boxes and I can then install what I want on them later. Tony > On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Tony Molloy <tony.molloy@xxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to install Fedora-9 on some Dell OptiPlex 620 boxes. I've > > tried both graphical and text based installs and get the same problem > > with both. When it tries to run anaconda it crashes with a long > > traceback. It's at the point where it is probeing for the video card the > > crash occurs. > > > > Does anybody have the magic incantation I can give to the boot sequence > > to get > > around this. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Tony > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > Guidelines: > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
