Display goes bad, seemingly randomly, during install of FC3

[Arthur Pemberton]

Richard E Miles wrote:

>On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 21:19:35 -0400
>Arthur Pemberton <dalive at flashmail.com> wrote:
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>>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.
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>>Any ideas on what ould be causign this? I've never encountered such before.
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>>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.
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Ok thanks.......but isn't that utility a Python/GUI utility which would 
require X to be running?