Problems in Fedora 8

[Nicolae Ghimbovschi]

Press any key (except enter) while it boots from the DVD.
And choose text mode installation.

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 9:38 AM, antonio.barragan
<antonio.barragan at ucv.ve> wrote:
>
> Dear All
>
> I have a linux box which is as follows:
> MSI K8T Neo-V Mainboard, 1 GB RAM
> Athlon 3000 processor
> Samsung 160 GB HDD SATA
> Seagate 40 GB IDE HDD
> Lite-On DVD RW unit SATA
> PNY Verto Nvidia 6200 graphics card, 256 MB, Digital and analog output
> Samsung SyncMaster 940 BW monitor (19 inch, WXGA mode)
> The machine is configured to boot from the DVD unit.
>
> I have been trying  to install Fedora 8, but so far,  this is what happens:
>
> - The first menu (text) where you could choose text mode installation
> goes so fast
>  there is no time to do anything
> - The splash menu does not appear at all
> - After quite a while (several minutes) the following messages appear:
> \"loading vmlinuz\" and
>  \"loading initrd.img\"
> - A sequence of messages appear next, but they go quite fast. The last
> one is recognizing the VC
>  as a Nvidia NV44A (GeForce 6200)
> - Then the anaconda seems to start.
> - From there on, a white screen appears, as if the graphics installation
> tried to start, but
>  there\'s only the white screen without any kind of icons or messages
> and the system stays
>  like that forever (I waited for half an hour and nothing else happened!)
>
> - The monitor has 2 modes: Analog and Digital. I tried both with the
> same result
>
> BTW, his happens the same with OpenSuse 10.3
>
> I will greatly appreciate any help or hint with this
>
> Thanks in advance
> Antonio Barragan
>
>
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