On 1/25/2015 5:46 PM, don fisher wrote:
I have an Alienware 17-1 laptop that I would like to run Fedora linux
on. The laptop has 2TB of disk, 32GB of ram and NVIDIA GeForce GTX
880M graphics, so I thought it would make a great development
platform. I inserted the Fedora live DVD and booted. It asked If I
wanted to check the disk, which I did. Next I started Fedora. It got
to the point where the fedora logo is on the screen, and then
disappeared. The fans came on, so I assumed it was doing something,
but after about 5 minutes the system appeared to be still in the same
state.
I don't have an Alienware machine to replicate your experience, but if
your machine's BIOS has UEFI components, that might be a clue. Turn them
off, and try again. Or not, as you prefer.
In the past there has been an install image that is about 4.3GB large
that guides the installation. I cannot find an similar image for F21.
I have been away for awhile, so if this is well known please forgive
me. I looked at the documentation and did not see any mention.
Another distribution, Mageia, has a recent set of beta 2 disks (one for
KDE4, one for GNOME, and one for x86_64) for its fifth major release.
The KDE4 and GNOME disks are Live-DVDs, and the x86_64 is a Core Release
disk (3,776 MB). If you have a DSL or better connection, you can have a
fully-updated beta 2 installation of the next full release (Mageia 5)
after a modest number of download hours for the Core Release and the
development updates in the last couple of weeks.
Fair-warning: the Mageia developers are testing their extensions of the
EFI booting process with this development release, so installation with
your machine's default BIOS may go smoothly, or it may have to be
returned to a legacy state for the installation. I don't have an
Alienware machine, so I can't tell you for certain. You can find more
distribution information from
the DistroWatch.com page, http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=08770
or from the beta 2 page of the Mageia.org website:
https://www.mageia.org/en/5/
Ken
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