Booting F7 Installation DVD

[Dave Cross]

On 6/30/07, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
> Dave Cross wrote:
> > I have a Philips Freevents X51 laptop and I'm having real problems
> > getting the F7 installation DVD to boot.
> >
> > It boots to the initial screen, where you press "enter" to start the.
> > installation, but at that point it seems that the keyboard is
> > unrecognised. Pressing any key has no effect at all.
>
>     I think where you are in the loading you don't need any keys.

I think you're wrong. I think you may be misunderstanding how soon in
the process I see the problem. This is the initial text screen. Where
it says "press [enter] to continue".

> Tell me if your mouse works and can you click on the thing in the far left
> bottom? It takes a long time to go on but just be patient.

As I understand it, there's no mouse driver loaded at this point.
There's certainly no mouse pointer visible. And I wouldn't expect to
see one.

Dave...