laptop install without flopy disk

[David Hunt]

Emiliano Brunetti wrote:

>On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 10:36, Jaakko Ruutiainen wrote:
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>>Check if this 
>>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-January/msg00008.html
>>thread helps
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>Yes, it definitely helps. Thanks a lot. I searched the archives but
>really didn't see that thread.
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I'm really glad that helped. What may not be obvious is that I actually 
continued that discussion here:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-January/msg00378.html
"Running Anaconda in text mode"

When I tried this the first time, the install died during the 
post-install configuration due to the X server crashing. It turns out 
that despite entering the settings for the laptop display (1400x1050 
Flat Panel) Anaconda appears to still use the "probed" information, 
during the initial boot. For my laptop that is monitor = unknown. Not 
the best combination to hope for. After running the text based install 
(which was successful!), the problem still exists, but I was able to 
change the display hardware from Generic CRT 1024x768 to Dell Laptop 
Display 1400x1050. And would you believe it, it works much better. Since 
you were preparing to load this on a laptop as well, I thought you might 
want to know. Best of luck!