Installation problems on centrino laptop

[Scot L. Harris]

On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 17:34, Cody Y wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to install Fedora Core 3 on my laptop. It's a 1.6ghz 
> centrino. I'm having 2 problems. Firstly, if I leave acpi on, then I get 
> a little ways into the installation, and get the error message, 
> "Critical temperature reached." Normally I would be concerned about 
> this, but the temperature that it lists is wildly fluctuating. I've had 
> 38 degrees celcius to 3184 degrees celcius.
                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Wonder if this why the articles about not keeping laptops in your lap? 
:)



> Okay, so fine, I just try it with "linux acpi=off" and I stop getting 
> the error messages. But then, another problem! I partition my disks (I 
> love the graphical installer, I used to use slackware.) choose my 
> packages, and it locks up half way through install. On, "Gnome desktop 
> manager" if I recall correctly.
> 
> Okay, I won't use Gnome, I'll use KDE (Or install gnome after). I 
> uncheck gnome, and it crashes at the same point trying to install the 
> gnome package... Am I missing something?
> 
> Some information: I have a 'no name' brand laptop. It's a cicero, which 
> is Future Shop's in house brand. After a little bit of research, I've 
> found out that it's either a rebranded seanix laptop, or a rebranded 
> CLEVO laptop. Model number is: M120c

How much memory?  I had a problem on a system once where selecting a lot
of packages during the install would fail.  It seemed that the system
which had 128MB at the time was running out of memory and the install
would fail.  By selecting a minimal install I was then able to load
additional packages after the initial install.  I subsequently upgraded
the memory to 1GB and did not have any problems after that.


> 
> Thanks,
> -Cody
-- 
Scot L. Harris
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CONGRATULATIONS!  Now should I make thinly veiled comments about
DIGNITY, self-esteem and finding TRUE FUN in your RIGHT VENTRICLE??