FC5 Installation turned out to be a disaster

[Margaret_Doll]

On Thursday, March 23, 2006, at 04:46 AM, Michael A. Peters wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 13:32 -0800, Richard E Miles wrote:
>> I installed the FC5 release on Tuesday but I experienced a problem I 
>> have never
>> had with any redhat or fedora releases. The anaconda could not detect 
>> my vidio
>> graphics card. This is a nvidia geforce FX 5200 card. This card has 
>> been detected
>> on previous installs (FC4). Because of this I did not get a graphical 
>> install.
>> The install took 2 and a half hours (fresh install). As such no 
>> xorg.conf file
>> was produced. System-config-display aborted. Because of this I had no 
>> X window
>> capability. This is totally unexceptable. I had to go back and 
>> reinstall FC4.
>> I know fedora is a bleeding edge distribution but this is not 
>> accepted. I am
>> seriously thinking of switching distributions.
>
> Yeah - odd that Fedora is the only distribution to ever have an
> installer bug, isn't it ...
>
> Anyway - a better thing to do would be
>
> 1) Specify your hardware
> a) Motherboard (if you know it)
> b) Computer Make (if you don't know motherboard)
> c) RAM installed
> d) Maker of the video card. Use hardware browser in FC4 to get info
> about it.
>
> Then maybe someone might know what is going on, and may be able to make
> a suggestion (such an argument to pass when starting the installer) 
> that
> will help your experience go a little smoother.


I had a RedHat Linux installation that did not recognize my video card.
For the Optic 620 with the flat screen 1704FPVt, I had to use

linux text nofb

and establish the video after the system was installed.

Read the information in F2 and F3 before entering the boot command

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