Fedoracore Download ?

[Michael Wright]

I had acer install fedoracore  here in Townsville whats happen is this the X server will not loadup ? I need to download the disc I don't have any of the disc all the rescuecd disc...

FC4-I386-disc1.iso 
FC4-I386-disc2.iso
FC4-I386-disc3.iso
FC4-I386-disc4.iso
FC4-I386-rescuecd.iso

Is that all i need to download ?

Mick....

[thomas cameron]

On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 19:54 +1000, Michael Wright wrote:
> I had acer install fedoracore  here in Townsville whats happen is this
> the X server will not loadup ?

Load up when?  What are you talking about?

Can you please give us something to work with here?  Anything?  A detail
here or there would be great.  Something like "When I boot the system,
instead of a graphical login I get..."
> I need to download the disc I don't have any of the disc all the
> rescuecd disc...

Is this English?  Are you saying you don't have the disks?  Then, yes,
you need to download them.
> FC4-I386-disc1.iso 
> FC4-I386-disc2.iso
> FC4-I386-disc3.iso
> FC4-I386-disc4.iso
> FC4-I386-rescuecd.iso
>
> Is that all i need to download ?

You don't really need the rescuecd image, you can use disc1 as a rescue
CD, just type "linux text rescue" at the syslinux boot prompt.

Seriously, man, please use complete sentences and punctuation.  It is
really hard to figure out what you are asking.

Thomas

[Michael Wright]

its the graphical login  that wont boot....
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Cameron" 
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" 
Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 7:59 PM
Subject: Re: Fedoracore Download ?
> On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 19:54 +1000, Michael Wright wrote:
> > I had acer install fedoracore  here in Townsville whats happen is this
> > the X server will not loadup ?
>
> Load up when?  What are you talking about?
>
> Can you please give us something to work with here?  Anything?  A detail
> here or there would be great.  Something like "When I boot the system,
> instead of a graphical login I get..."
> > I need to download the disc I don't have any of the disc all the
> > rescuecd disc...
>
> Is this English?  Are you saying you don't have the disks?  Then, yes,
> you need to download them.
> > FC4-I386-disc1.iso 
> > FC4-I386-disc2.iso
> > FC4-I386-disc3.iso
> > FC4-I386-disc4.iso
> > FC4-I386-rescuecd.iso
> >
> > Is that all i need to download ?
>
> You don't really need the rescuecd image, you can use disc1 as a rescue
> CD, just type "linux text rescue" at the syslinux boot prompt.
>
> Seriously, man, please use complete sentences and punctuation.  It is
> really hard to figure out what you are asking.
>
> Thomas
>
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[thomas cameron]

On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 20:02 +1000, Michael Wright wrote:
> its the graphical login  that wont boot....

OK, so what *does* it do?  You really, really need to include some
details here.  "It won't boot" tells us essentially nothing.

Does it hang?  Is there an error message?  If so, what?

Have you tried any trouble-shooting steps?  If so, what?  What was the
result?

Would you take a car to a mechanic and say "it isn't working" and expect
him to be able to help?  Or would you say something like "when I make a
left turn I hear a squeaking noise" instead?  Details are very helpful
when trouble-shooting.

Try rebooting, and when you get to the very first Linux screen (should
be a menu of boot options), press "a" to edit the kernel line.  Use your
backspace key to erase the words "rhgb quiet" and add the number 3 to
the kernel line so it looks something like this:

kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-22.0.1.EL ro root=/dev/hda2 3

This will boot to runlevel 3, which doesn't activate the X server.  Log
in as root and then run the command

system-config-display --reconfig

This will allow you to set up your X server.  I suspect that when Acer
set up your machine, they had it hooked up to a monitor which is capable
of a higher refresh rate or resolution than yours.

Thomas

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 30 December 2005 05:02, Michael Wright wrote:
> its the graphical login  that wont boot....
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Thomas Cameron" 
> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" 
> Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 7:59 PM
> Subject: Re: Fedoracore Download ?
> > On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 19:54 +1000, Michael Wright wrote:
> > > I had acer install fedoracore  here in Townsville whats happen is
> > > this the X server will not loadup ?
> >
> > Load up when?  What are you talking about?
> >
> > Can you please give us something to work with here?  Anything?  A
> > detail here or there would be great.  Something like "When I boot
> > the system, instead of a graphical login I get..."
> > > I need to download the disc I don't have any of the disc all the
> > > rescuecd disc...
> >
> > Is this English?  Are you saying you don't have the disks?  Then,
> > yes, you need to download them.
> > > FC4-I386-disc1.iso
> > > FC4-I386-disc2.iso
> > > FC4-I386-disc3.iso
> > > FC4-I386-disc4.iso
> > > FC4-I386-rescuecd.iso
> > >
> > > Is that all i need to download ?
> >
> > You don't really need the rescuecd image, you can use disc1 as a
> > rescue CD, just type "linux text rescue" at the syslinux boot
> > prompt.
> >
> > Seriously, man, please use complete sentences and punctuation.  It
> > is really hard to figure out what you are asking.
> >
> > Thomas

This is getting past ridiculous and into the sublime I think, when the 
problem might be fixed by booting to runlevel 3, and cd'ing 
to /var/locks, and cleaning out the x related lockfiles.  Its worth a 
look anyway, and far more educational than trying to make sense out of 
shorthanded english when we don't know the shorthand version.  After 
that, any other problems should be readily evident in the logs.
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