I don't know how old your machine is, but I had no trouble installing F17 onto a nine-year-old Dell Precision 650. I started with a live LXDE CD spin (booted from the only USB port that allows for booting) and was running fine within a couple of minutes or three. On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 19:45:37 +0000 Beartooth <beartooth@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I've been trying to install Fedora 17 to an old Dell PowerEdge > 1420 (which began life as a server, with two drives mirroring one > another; but that's not so now). The CD drive doesn't recognize DVDs; it > can't seem to imagine booting from an external USB drive that does; > trying to run a live CD never even gets to a login flash, because it > can't imagine a monitor being 1680x1050 -- and there's no xorg.conf to > edit, afaict. Editing to get it to boot into level 3 still gets the error > message about the monitor. > > Is there a way?? > > -- > Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Linux Power User > I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. > > > -- > 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 -- 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
