installation help

[Bryan M. Johns]

Sounds to me as though you have an x-server misconfiguration.  If your 
screen is going blank, it is most likely due to the system booting xorg, 
but your screen res or monitor ar emisconfigured and it is not able to 
display the output.

Boot in single user mode by modifying your kernel boot parameters:

When displayed the kernel version during boot, hit enter.
Select the kernel, then hit "e"
At the end of the kernel statement, add the following:  "  single"  
(with the space)
Hit "b" to boot.

This will boot you to a shell "#:"

 From the command prompt, run: "system-config-display" and feed it good 
info for your hardware (be conservative)
 
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Paul wrote:

> I tried and failed to install this OS on my laptop (PIII-650 384 megs 
> of ram).  I did this by downloading FC3-i386-DVD.iso and burning it 
> onto a dvd with my desktop (running Windows XP), and then installing.  
> I had it destroy all former partitions (Windows ME) that was on there 
> previously, and everything seemed to go very well.  Then it was done 
> about a half an hour later and I rebooted.
>
> It hangs while trying to boot up and I can't figure out the cause.  
> Here's the information I see during bootup that may or maynot be 
> relevant :
>
> Booting 'Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.667)'
> root (hd0,0)
> Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
>    [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1400, size=0x155da5]
> initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
>    [Linux-initrd @ 0x17ee4000, 0x17ee4000, 0xebc97 bytes]
>
> Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.
> audit(1111678052.169:0): initialized
> Red Hat nash version 4.1.18 starting
>  Reading all physical volumes.  This may take a while...
>  Found volume group "VolGroup00" using metadata type lvm2
>  2 logical volumes in volume group "VolGroup00" now active
> INIT: version 2.85 booting
> Setting default font (latarcyrheb-sun16):              [   OK   ]
>
>                Welcome to Fedora Core
>                Press 'I' to enter interactrive startup.
> Starting udev:  i                                                  [   
> OK   ]
> Initializing hardware...   storage network audio_
>
>
> It always stops here and does nothing no matter how patient I am.  Any 
> ideas?  Anywhere I might look for more information on resolving this 
> issue?  I'd really like to get Red Hat up and going on my machine and 
> this is very frustrating.  Any replies would be most appreciated.  
> Unfortunately, I'm a complete beginner with respect to this operating 
> system, and all other 'linux' types of OS's.
>