Install 12 Alpha Using USB Stick

[Niels Haase]

2009/8/31 Robert L Cochran <cochranb at speakeasy.net>:

> So I reluctantly burned the DVD and used that to install the Alpha.
> Obviously, the installer isn't working right: X failed to start, and it
> booted into a text-mode installation.

You can try to pass xdriver=vesa to the kernel boot line on the
installer DVD to get the graphical install back.

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Regards,
Niels