Display goes bad, seemingly randomly, during install of FC3
Richard E Miles
r.godzilla at comcast.net
Thu Feb 10 20:00:20 UTC 2005
On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 22:31:45 -0400
Arthur Pemberton <dalive at flashmail.com> wrote:
> Richard E Miles wrote:
>
> >On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 21:19:35 -0400
> >Arthur Pemberton <dalive at flashmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>Hello,
> >>I'm currently talking my friend through and FC3 install over the phone.
> >>Her video card and monitor seem to get properly detected. However,
> >>seemingly randomly, the display goes bad as what she describes as a
> >>"barcode with color" like display. THe first time this happened on
> >>Anaconda launch. The second time happened while she was choosign the
> >>timezone on the map. The third happened while she was customizing the
> >>packages. As I type she's rebooting and start fresh from memory of my
> >>instructions.
> >>
> >>Any ideas on what ould be causign this? I've never encountered such before.
> >>
> >>Thanks
> >>
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> >
> >Sounds like the display isn't set up properly. Have her boot in to run level 3
> >by appending a 3 to the kernel on the bootup. From level 3 she will be able to
> >run system-config-display to set up her display.
> >
> >
> >
> Ok thanks.......but isn't that utility a Python/GUI utility which would
> require X to be running?
>
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Of cource my mistake. Tell her to select text mode install instead of Gui install.
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Richard E Miles
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