installation problems - Help will be appreciated

[Jay Estabrook]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 04:20:24PM +0200, Padiyath Sreekumaran wrote:
> 
>    Many thanks for the information. As you suggested I tried on another 
>    Machine with S3 Trio64 card.The system prompted for language, keyboard, 
>    and mouse and died during the X11 startup. What is the command to 
>    install in text mode? Iam having problems with X11.

First, boot into interactive aboot by:

	>>> b dka400 -fl i

Then, at the aboot prompt, type "l" (that's lowercase "L"), to get a
list of the different alternate boot lines, and choose the one that
indicates "text" at the end; I think it is option 2...

Good luck.

 --Jay++

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