Problems installing Fedora 3 on my laptop
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I wanted to try installing Fedora 3 on my laptop, so I downloaded the DVD.
I have a compaq armada m300 with 196 mb ram and p3 600 cpu. Not a hell of a powerfull pc, but i wanted to try even so.
It boots fine from the dvd, and i get the usual hit enter to start the graphical installer, or write linux text to install using text mode..
first i try just to hit enter...
then this happens
It probes for hardware, then the whole screen turns white, gradually... taking lets say 5 sec.. when it had become white, it gradually turns black.. and the pc seems to hang.
First i thought it might be X that had some buggy drivers loading during the installer load. but the same thing happens when I try linux text as well.
any idea what causes this?
regards
NH
I have a compaq armada m300 with 196 mb ram and p3 600 cpu. Not a hell of a powerfull pc, but i wanted to try even so.
It boots fine from the dvd, and i get the usual hit enter to start the graphical installer, or write linux text to install using text mode..
first i try just to hit enter...
then this happens
It probes for hardware, then the whole screen turns white, gradually... taking lets say 5 sec.. when it had become white, it gradually turns black.. and the pc seems to hang.
First i thought it might be X that had some buggy drivers loading during the installer load. but the same thing happens when I try linux text as well.
any idea what causes this?
regards
NH
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Have you either verified the media thru MD5 hash on the DVD iso or running linux media check at the boot prompt?
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Yes, it works fine. The same thing happened with Fedora 2 when I tried that when it was released. So I gave it up
Is there an option to disable ACPI during boot (like "noacpi")? I know that would seem lame for a laptop, but if it doesn't support ACPI properly then you might get away with simple APM.
I had the same problem with FC3 and a similar one with MDK 10.1. Do like clutch said.
Boot like this: "linux noapic" (without quotes)
Boot like this: "linux noapic" (without quotes)
OP
I got it working now. Used linux nofb, and it worked like a dream.
