On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Timothy Murphy <gayleard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > James Kosin wrote: > >> Timothy Murphy wrote: >>>>> I tried installing F-10 from the hard disk >>>>> on my Thinkpad T43 >>>>> but came up against two major impediments: >>>>> >>>>> 1. The cursor is not visible. >>>>> Occasionally something lights up, to show where the cursor is >>>>> (eg when specifying one's location), >>>>> but on other occasions it does not seem to be active at all >>>>> (eg when nominating partitions for / , etc). >>>>> >>>>> 2. The display extends below the bottom of my screen, >>>>> and there seems to be no way of moving to the bottom, >>>>> where the "Continue" button is hidden. >>>>> I can move on by pressing TAB several times >>>>> and guessing where I have got to. >>>>> Quite often I hit the Back button by mistake, >>>>> which is rather annoying. >>> >> Ok, now I got you. You mean the install CD is choosing the wrong >> resolution; so, you can't install FC-10. >> Anyone know if "Do they still provide the text-only install option on >> FC-10?" > > I succeeded in installing Fedora-10 in text mode, > by adding "text" to the grub.conf stanza: > -------------------------- > title Fedora 10 boot > root (hd0,1) > kernel /isolinux/vmlinuz text > initrd /isolinux/initrd.img > -------------------------- > > There was an error reported after installing 1500 packages, > but Fedora came up in text mode all the same, > and ran after a fashion in graphics mode after "startx". > > However, it is rather unstable; > stray lines appeared on the display from time to time, > and the cursor stopped moving after a time. > > > > -- I've intstalled fc10 on an amd athlon processor msi k8t neo mb 2gb memory and had the mouse function is fits and starts, but after installing the updates the graphics/mouse worked great. Nice job compared to my results with fc9! -- Gary -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
