<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 16, 2007 9:17 PM, John Summerfield <<a href="mailto:debian@herakles.homelinux.org">debian@herakles.homelinux.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Fulko Hew wrote:<br>> On Dec 16, 2007 6:10 PM, John Summerfield <<a href="mailto:debian@herakles.homelinux.org">debian@herakles.homelinux.org</a>><br>> wrote:<br>><br><br>>>> So... he can't read the subsequent screens
<br>>>> to finish the installation.<br>>>><br>>>> Does anyone have any workarounds to either:<br>>>> a) perform stage 2 of the install in text mode<br>><br>><br>>> Try booting to runlevel 3
<br>>> I've not tried it, but you should<br>><br>><br>> Thanks, this worked wonderfully,<br>> He's up and running now.<br>> (I didn't know this mode/technique existed.)<br><br><br>well, if you didn't know about runlevel 3 then you have a serious amount
<br>of reading to do:-)</blockquote><div><br>I've known about run level 3 for about 25 years now, :-)<br>what I didn't know was that there were text mode<br>versions of what Fedora executes post install.<br> <br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Then there's the question of how first boot would run if you didn't<br>install any graphics components. Seemed to me that
<br>1. It should work<br>2. It would start then compain/fail from the lack of graphics support<br>3. It would not start at all.</blockquote><div><br>Graphics stuff was installed. Actually, whatever the 'live CD'
<br>installs was installed. You don't get to choose the packages.<br><br>The problem is/was:<br><br>Now that X attempts to pick the best resolution for the video card/monitor...<br>what happens when it picks wrong? Thats whats happening in his case.
<br>His GUI was unreadable, so he couldn't proceed.<br><br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Obviously, the first is most desirable, so why not try it? What's to
<br>lose, at worst you redo the install (probably more quickly, having had<br>more practice).</blockquote></div><br>