Strange installation problem
Mike McCarty
mike.mccarty at sbcglobal.net
Wed Jul 6 16:03:27 UTC 2005
Manisha Sathe wrote:
> 1)I downloaded all 4 iso files (FC4 for i386) from one of the mirror
> site -> checked the sha1sum for all and later copied on to CD.
Please use narrower lines.
> 2)Booted from 1st CD - i got the first screen menu for fedora - to
> install.... press enter.... boot: etc
>
> I tried many combinations at boot prompt - pressing enter, linux text,
> linux mediacheck
>
> but always end result is same - it runs some commands on console and
> screen become black and then from bottom it starts becoming bright
> slowly after some time it shows 2 blue strips at both sides with
> reddish black as middle strip. Nothing comes out, nothing happens i hv
> to restart the laptop.
>
What variations did you try? Did you try acpi=off?
> I am on Inspiron 9300 with Intel Pentium M Processor. I already hv
> winXP and win2K loaded on this m/c (on E and C drive respectively). On
> third partition i want to load Linux.
>
> Pls let me know what's going wrong here.
With a little more information, I'm sure someone here can help. But
you need to provide more information.
Mike
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