Weirdness with Fedora/XP upgrade -- update
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Sun May 25 13:07:52 UTC 2008
On Sat, 2008-05-24 at 20:55 +0000, Beartooth Sciurivore wrote:
> On Fri, 23 May 2008 20:01:59 +0000, Beartooth Sciurivore wrote:
>
> [....]
> > So I put in the DVD from which I had successfully gotten F9 onto
> > three machines, and told XP to reboot.
> >
> > It has done the same thing -- gone through the first few steps,
> > only to sit there with a blank white screen.
> >
> > The monitor is new, a HP w2207h 1680x1050; but the other two PCs
> > manage with it, both behind a KVM switch and directly connected. And the
> > dual-boot machine is much the newest!
> >
> > What could be doing this, and how do I fix it??
>
> I tried again, with the known good DVD and the known good
> external USB DVD-drive. It did it again, and I let it go all night. Next
> morning (today), still bare white screen.
>
> I rebooted, and established that it still did boot fine into F8
> as well as XP.
>
> I tried it yet another time, using text mode. All went smoothly,
> up to the point of installing Tomboy -- which it shouldn't install in an
> upgrade, since that isn't in my F8.
Are you sure it is tue that onnly programs that are in F8 are installed
in F9 if you do an upgrade?
>
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