Signs of Life in Rawhide Install

Todd norrist at gmail.com
Sat Aug 1 22:29:42 UTC 2009


I had a similar experience with the mouse pointer.  Anyone know if
there is a new bug report?

This is the first F12 installer I have gotten to work.

On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX
N2469R<caf at omen.com> wrote:
> Finally was able to install Rawhide on one of my machines,
> the ECS motherboard with AMD 6000 and ATI video card.
>
> The X cursor did not appear for the first few screens after the X server
> started.  So I had to use the tab key.  Then the cursor started working
> sort of. By the end of installation the X cursor was working normally.
>
> Anaconda could not do an automatic install on a drive that was all FreeBSD.
> Using custom disk layout to do the partitioning got around that issue.
> Booting to an EXT4 partition worked.
>
> The booted Linux did not run the onceonly script.  I had to use the
> console tty login to add a user.  Haven't had a chance to thrash the
> system but at least I get a Gnome screen.
>
> My main office machine still goes dark when the install gets to the point
> of asking for language (I presume).  The machine with Intel GPU switches
> to a mode that its monitor complains about.  What I need is a pxeboot
> vga cheat code that tells the install process to leave the VGA in default
> 80x25 mode until the X server is started.  Does such a code exist?
>
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