Fedora Core 1 Install problem: X-window ?

[Jeff Vian]

mailing-lists at dragoneyedesign.net wrote:

>hi,
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>I have been posting several times today.
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>I am having a lot of problems to install Fedora Core1 on my system.
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>First of all, when I tried to boot from the cd I tried to install in grafical mode, but when anaconda started all I got was a white screen with my mouse pointer on it, i could not move the pointer, and nothing happened at all.
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>Then somebody here gave me the tip to try and install in text mode, so i did that and I was able to install Linux completely. 
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>But there were problems when I first started the system, I got the screen that gave the startup procedure but the system froze when it tried to load firstboot.
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>Again I posted and Alexander and iludwig gave me the advice to edit my grub config and change it to
>kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl ro root=LABEL=/ hdd-ide-scsi norhgb confirm
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>so that is what i did, i anwered all the questions with yes in order to start as much services as possible, i did the same when I came to firstboot. 
>Miraculously i got the welcome screen from firstboot, it said that there were some steps ahead in order to complete the system configuration, i clicked the next button... and again the system froze.
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>So, I conclude that there must be a problem with the Xwindow system as everytime it is loaded something seems to go wrong (correct me if I am wrong)
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>Could somebody tell me what to do?
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When booting, at the splash screen/menu press "A".  then add "3" at the 
end of the line that comes up.
this will boot you to a text login (run level 3) and you can fis what is 
wrong with X there.
Another reboot will bring it back to the graphics login.

>Matt.
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