On Thursday 17 April 2008 20:22, Andrew Farris wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Thursday 17 April 2008 17:11:35 Mary Ellen Foster wrote: > >> On 17/04/2008, Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> It's time to admit defeat on this one. I've set selinux to permissive. > >>> I've rebooted and relabelled. I can't even get konsole to run, so no > >>> command-line work is possible. I did hope briefly that simply opening > >>> the package with the installer might realise that I just wanted a > >>> localinstall, but of course you can't add any parameters to that. It > >>> looks like a dead-end on that laptop. > >> > >> You could try ctrl-alt-F1 and use the virtual consoles ... > > > > It's worth a try, thanks. I've had to leave it for tonight, but I'll try > > that tomorrow. I think, though, that I'm going to have to put one of the > > mini distros on that laptop. Still, it would have been nice to test F9 > > from the hardware POV, even though I always knew it would be too slow to > > work with. > > You can also add a '3' to the end of your kernel parameters in grub before > you boot (edit at the grub menu for just that one time), which will get you > to runlevel 3 and just work in the virtual terminal until you've got the > network up and running (or at least the rpm installed). > Unfortunately none of these methods were successful. Adding '3' didn't boot to level 3! The method involving ftp to a mirror is out - I don't have a connection. Using Ctrl-Alt-F1 gives me a terminal and I tried the yum command from there. It said it couldn't retrieve the mirrorlist, and couldn't retrieve repository metadata. Attempting to install from a graphical file manager says that local installs are not supported. End of road, I'm afraid. BTW Ctrl-Alt-F7 doesn't do anything. Anne -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
