Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 02:40 +0200, Björn Persson wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > As I (and I think others) have said before,
> > the way to run the basic system without the graphical part is to go into
> > mode 3.
> 
> But this only applies once Fedora is installed. To get through the 
> installation without graphics, type "linux text" when you boot the installer 
> disc, as Frank Cox wrote.
> 
> When the installation is done in text mode like this, the installed system 
> will also boot into text mode (mode 3). After the installation is done it's 
> time to run the commands that others have mentioned to install the updates 
> and the graphics driver. When the graphics works you can change a setting so 
> that the system will boot into graphical mode (mode 5) instead.

Quite right. I was forgetting he hadn't got as far as installation yet.

poc