Fedora 15 installer help

[Dennis Gilmore]

On Tuesday, February 22, 2011 09:51:23 PM Evan Klitzke wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I recently got a Mac Mini "server" edition which means it has two HDDs and
> no CD drive. Trying to get Linux installed on this thing has been a bit of
> a challenge, since I can't boot from a CD and EFI support on Macs seems
> unreliable/unsupported -- but I think with the Fedora 15 release I'm
> really close to being able to do it.
> 
> So to boot an installer on this thing, I need an EFI image on a USB disk.
> Tried to create a liveusb CD on Fedora 14, couldn't boot the EFI image.
> What would happen is I'd boot up and get the GRUB screen with the splash
> image, could edit the kernel/initrd lines, etc. but when I try to boot
> nothing happens, the screen just stays stuck on the GRUB splash screen.
> Discovered the efidisk.img files on the Fedora mirrors, tried them out for
> F12-F14 and same thing happened as when I used the liveusb image.
> 
> Tried the F15 efidisk.img from the kernel.org mirror, and holy smoke, it
> boots! What happens is when the system boots the screen is all scrambled,
> although I can make out what would normally be the Tux logo and the grey
> text scrolling by. Then I get to the familiar blue/grey/red screen in the
> Fedora text installer. If I hit the arrow keys on my keyboard the red part
> moves up/down, which I know from experience is the menu for selecting the
> installer language. But since the graphics are all scrambled, I can't
> actually read anything, and thus I can't proceed with the installation.
> 
> So I think if I can boot the F15 installer in a mode where the graphics
> aren't all messed up, I can install. I've tried using the "nomodeset"
> option on the kernel line (i.e. by hitting 'e' in GRUB and editing), but
> no dice -- I still get the scrambled screen. To the best of my knowledge,
> the videocard is an NVIDIA GeForce 320M. I realize I probably missed the
> nouveau graphics test day today, but maybe there's someone here who can
> help me out.
> 
> Thanks!

look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Options i see two options.  try 
and write a kickstart file that sets up everything for you or  use vnc, pass 
enough options so that network is setup, keyboard etc detected,  and vnc can 
start so you can connect. 

Dennis
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