On 10/03/12 18:27, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: > On 08/03/12 00:07, Michael Hennebry wrote: >> >> I made a minimal CD to start an install from hard drive. >> It doesn't work. >> >> The boot menu asks me to install or troubleshoot. >> Hitting enter for install results in lots of text >> scrolling off the page followed by catatonia. >> The first time, the last line was incomplete. >> The next time I used >> linux ks=http://www.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/~hennebry/anaconda-ks.cfg >> The last line before catatonia included something like "end of dump". >> >> The CD is not bad. >> It's an exact copy of the iso from which it was made. >> I read it back and did a diff to make sure. >> The iso's sha256sum is >> a4a7cc83163a2cecf1420c64d48123d0887e165aa17a72b8920f8d70bf003a65 . >> >> How do I debug this? >> > > I can sympathise, having had little luck trying to install Fedora 16 > myself. The last successful attempt, well to some degree, was with a > network install CD and doing a text install, (change the anaconda > options by adding text to the end). Unfortunately this results in a > minimal install, so you will have to use yum to install everything else. > A tedious task at best. As an update I have discovered that the Nouveau driver for nVidia cards has problems in Fedora 16. Hence on the network install CD or a spin CD you need to use the troubleshooting install/run which then uses the vesa driver instead. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
