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Gowator

Jul 27 2003, 12:30 PM

My experiences:
system, A shuttle SS41KG Amd athalon 1250Mhz and 1GB RAM.
Generic bttv TV card

1) Initally no-go
The default graphical install hangs and I can't completely turn off ACPI in the bios.
Soln: Use other options then
text noacpi apic=no

this still keeps hanging, partly becuase of some conflict between USB2 and serial ports.
Soln:
Turn off all serial ports in bios.

Made a fairly minimal install out of caution and this went well. Previous installs had hung but I don't know yet if this is the install kernel and the serial will work (or not) with the enterprise kernel.

Ran the MDK updates, about 300MB seemed pretty necassary, including the urpmi stuff.

Hope this helps someone-

pmpatrick

Jul 28 2003, 03:46 AM

There's a bug listed in the errata with over 1GB of ram:

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Error scenario: Booting the installer, a machine with a lot of memory (1GB or more) hangs with flashing caps/scroll lock LEDs (Bugzilla #3198).
Why: It seems as though there is framebuffer trouble with certain video cards on machines with a high amount of memory.
Solution: At the installer splash screen when you first boot off the CD or floppy disks, press F1 and type "linux vga=0".

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