Display goes bad, seemingly randomly, during install of FC3

[Thomas Cameron]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Arthur Pemberton" <dalive at flashmail.com>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 7:19 PM
Subject: Display goes bad, seemingly randomly, during install of FC3


> 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

Try running the installation in text mode.  When the system first starts the 
installer, there's a text-based screen where you can type:

linux text

and the installation will continue without an X GUI.

Thomas