Installation problem on Dell OptiPlex620

Michael Magua mmglug at gmail.com
Fri Oct 3 12:01:44 UTC 2008


When you boot, at the prompt type "linux vesa" without the " "

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Tony Molloy <tony.molloy at ul.ie> wrote:

> On Friday 03 October 2008 09:11:36 Michael Magua wrote:
> > Probably due to the ATI graphics card, is it possible to specify vesa
> > driver as a boot option i.e "linux vesa".
> >
> > Alternatively do a text install, at the prompt use
> >
> > linux text
> >
>
> As I said I tried the text based install and got the same problem.
>
> When I boot from the boot.iso image how do I tell it to use the vesa
> driver.
> If I press <tab> to edit the boot line then adding vesa doesn't work.
>
> As a workaround I'm doing a live CD install on the boxes and I can then
> install what I want on them later.
>
> Tony
>
> > On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Tony Molloy <tony.molloy at ul.ie> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm trying to install Fedora-9 on some Dell OptiPlex 620 boxes. I've
> > > tried both graphical and text based installs and get the same problem
> > > with both. When it tries to run anaconda it crashes with a long
> > > traceback. It's at the point where it is probeing for the video card
> the
> > > crash occurs.
> > >
> > > Does anybody have the magic incantation I can give to the boot sequence
> > > to get
> > > around this.
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Tony
> > >
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Regards,
Michael Magua

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