Text mode installer

[Ben Smith]

Bill Somerville wrote:

>Alexander Dalloz wrote:
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>>Am Mi, den 10.11.2004 schrieb Bill Somerville um 1:52:
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>>>I am struggling with installing FC2 on an old IBM Thinkpad. The Anaconda
>>>graphical installer is crashing with what looks like an out of memory
>>>problem. Is it possible to force a text based install?
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>>>Bill Somerville
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>>linux text
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>>as input on the install prompt. Isn't that written down on the first
>>screen you face after the CD1 / DVD booted?
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>Ah, that makes sense. Unfortunately I never see the boot screen as the
>machine cannot boot from CD-ROM and I'm using glbf to initialize an NFS
>install  from a boot floppy that boots boot.iso from a VFAT partition.
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>Is there a kernel command line parameter that forces a text install?
>This is the only variation I have on the installer boot process.
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>>Alexander
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>Bill Somerville
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Bill,

The 'text' option is a kernel option, as are all of the Fedora boot 
parameters.


Cheers,

Ben
Dees Consulting
www.deesconsulting.com