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Fedora with Toshiba Laptop
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| Tony Lisanti 2005-08-27, 5:50 pm |
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I'm trying to install the latest fedora core release on a Toshiba
Laptop 1805-S253. The GUI install would always fail with a black
screen. However, command line install would work and appear to
install properly. But while booting before the logon screen the whole
screen goes white, and then nothing. Anyone have any clues?
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| andrew 2005-09-09, 5:54 pm |
| Just curious -- which medium does your installer sit on? Are you using
the four CD images or the single DVD image?
I read indications on usenet that there were problems with the FC4 DVD
install image, where it would work on some systems and not others. But
that the four CD images were a safe alternative.
Steering clear of the hit-or-miss experimentation with DVD, I have been
using the four CD images, which I place on the hard drive (on a
separate data partition) and point the installer to them. The three or
four installations i have done this way have gone without a glitch.
andrew
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| andrew 2005-09-10, 8:52 pm |
| Guess what??
With regards to both your original post and my first reply: I have,
since my reply, tried to install FC4 on a Toshiba laptop - a Protege
7140 - and the installer crashed!
This in spite of the fact that I used the four CD images and not the
DVD image.
First of all, the installer forced me into text mode ("no graphical
mode available") - perhaps because the system's 128MB RAM did not meet
the minimum for graphical mode (could anyone confirm/comment on that??)
Second, while attempting to install, in text mode, after disk druid and
partition configurations, while "reading packages..." i got the
following error:
http://www.flight.us/misc/protege_7140_install_bug.txt
This certainly blows away my earlier assurance about the 4-CD
alternative.
thanks
andrew
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