<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 16, 2007 9:17 PM, John Summerfield <<a href="mailto:debian@herakles.homelinux.org">debian@herakles.homelinux.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Fulko Hew wrote: > On Dec 16, 2007 6:10 PM, John Summerfield <<a href="mailto:debian@herakles.homelinux.org">debian@herakles.homelinux.org</a>> > wrote: > >>> So... he can't read the subsequent screens >>> to finish the installation. >>> >>> Does anyone have any workarounds to either: >>> a) perform stage 2 of the install in text mode > > >> Try booting to runlevel 3 >> I've not tried it, but you should > > > Thanks, this worked wonderfully, > He's up and running now. > (I didn't know this mode/technique existed.) well, if you didn't know about runlevel 3 then you have a serious amount of reading to do:-)</blockquote><div> I've known about run level 3 for about 25 years now, :-) what I didn't know was that there were text mode versions of what Fedora executes post install. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Then there's the question of how first boot would run if you didn't install any graphics components. Seemed to me that 1. It should work 2. It would start then compain/fail from the lack of graphics support 3. It would not start at all.</blockquote><div> Graphics stuff was installed. Actually, whatever the 'live CD' installs was installed. You don't get to choose the packages. The problem is/was: Now that X attempts to pick the best resolution for the video card/monitor... what happens when it picks wrong? Thats whats happening in his case. His GUI was unreadable, so he couldn't proceed. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Obviously, the first is most desirable, so why not try it? What's to lose, at worst you redo the install (probably more quickly, having had more practice).</blockquote></div>