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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