On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 17:21 -0400, Andre Robatino wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > My father attempted to do a clean GUI install of F11, using the entire > drive. But the window "creating filesystem on /dev/sda1" never finished > - - we let it run for almost a full day. Going to VT2 shows an Xorg > process using over 95% of the CPU. We tried xdriver=vesa and acpi=off > with no luck. A text-based install works, but is extremely stripped > down with only 179 packages installed. We figured out how to use > useradd and passwd to create an ordinary user account, but not how to > get networking working, or what the easiest way would be to get a list > of the default list of packages for a GUI install, and how to install > them. We couldn't even get X running - we changed the default runlevel > in /etc/inittab from 3 to 5, but the GUI never comes up after booting, > just a cursor on a black screen. > > Since the text-based installer has been stripped down to the point where > it results in an essentially unusable system, and there appears to be no > way to use the GUI installer (it's already been reported as bug #505412, > but no evidence of progress in fixing it) is there a walkthrough > anywhere on how to make the resulting system usable? > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAkpNJMkACgkQ0pavuo9EGO8IowCg1FBMvth/MgnQGSwZfUzeuDHQ > edgAn28exrsHttrpCGupepvFyNeMDYjB > =5jiT > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > Since week ago I did a GUI install of F11 from a DVD I guess I believe that the GUI install works. But maybe not for your hardware. What hardware do you have and how did you try exactly to do the GUI install. For example which option did you pick from the boot screen? -- ======================================================================= Denver, n.: A smallish city located just below the `O' in Colorado. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
