Signs of Life in Rawhide Install
G.Wolfe Woodbury
ggw_ at wolves.homeip.net
Sun Aug 2 21:49:23 UTC 2009
On Sat, 01 Aug 2009 17:29:42 -0500, Todd wrote:
> 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?
> 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.
>
My experience was that the installer started (no mouse pointer until
after the disk druid) but then the install double faulted activating the
disk layout -- exception, then exception when "file bug" selected.
Could not save either exception report.
Re-boot showed that some of the partitions had been damaged so a re-
install of F11 is taking place. Could not properly get Everything and/or
updates to mount from the same NFS partition as the Fedora Installation
Repo.
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G.Wolfe Woodbury
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