general install question

Rick Stevens rstevens at vitalstream.com
Mon Oct 31 19:04:41 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 10:14 -0800, chuck lawrence wrote:
> greetings,
> 
> this happens to me pretty regularly, and I don't really understand the 
> process needed to resolve...
> 
> a new pc arrives, with brand new components.  the NIC and/or video card 
> are especially new and fancy.
> 
> my redhat install media doesn't know what to do about one or the other 
> (or both), and so the e-z, gui-driven installation either fails to start 
> (new video - no X), or can't reach my various network services, e.g. 
> NFS, NIS, etc (new NIC - no networking).
> 
> so far, I've either swapped components for known hardware, or waited. 
> eventually rh catches up and next month's release may work with last 
> month's hardware.
> 
> presumably, the right thing to do is do a text-based load and then 
> manually locate and install drivers, assuming they exist.  is that 
> correct?  could someone post examples?

Yes, a text install is the way around this.

I'm willing to bet these new systems use nVidia hardware--especially
their "nforce" stuff.  They seem to change their specs like most people
change underwear.  You'll need to do a text install, then fetch their
drivers and install them, then you can do a "system-config-display" and
a "system-config-network".

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