Display goes bad, seemingly randomly, during install of FC3

[Arthur Pemberton]

Thomas Cameron wrote:

> ----- 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

If I can't get her a GUI at all, I'll do that.

Thanks