Re: Fedora-10 problems

James Kosin wrote:

Timothy Murphy wrote:
I tried installing F-10 from the hard disk
on my Thinkpad T43
but came up against two major impediments:

1. The cursor is not visible.
Occasionally something lights up, to show where the cursor is
(eg when specifying one's location),
but on other occasions it does not seem to be active at all
(eg when nominating partitions for / , etc).

2. The display extends below the bottom of my screen,
and there seems to be no way of moving to the bottom,
where the "Continue" button is hidden.
I can move on by pressing TAB several times
and guessing where I have got to.
Quite often I hit the Back button by mistake,
which is rather annoying.

Ok, now I got you. You mean the install CD is choosing the wrong
resolution; so, you can't install FC-10.
Anyone know if "Do they still provide the text-only install option on
FC-10?"

I succeeded in installing Fedora-10 in text mode,
by adding "text" to the grub.conf stanza:
--------------------------
title Fedora 10 boot
root (hd0,1)
kernel /isolinux/vmlinuz text
initrd /isolinux/initrd.img
--------------------------

There was an error reported after installing 1500 packages,
but Fedora came up in text mode all the same,
and ran after a fashion in graphics mode after "startx".

However, it is rather unstable;
stray lines appeared on the display from time to time,
and the cursor stopped moving after a time.



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Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

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