beta 1 laptop install and fix

[ByteEnable]

I just installed Beta2 on my Dell Latitude CPx750 without any problems. 
Whats so cool about laptop installs is that you can swap out hard drives
really easy.  I have a hard drive just for this purpose.  

Is it me, or is this Beta2 snappier than RH9 ?

Byte

On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 19:36, Frank Merenda wrote:
> Sorry if this is a dup, I wasn't properly subscribed
> to test, so I wanted to repeat this message for laptop
> users if it didn't go through.
> 
> Yeah, I know beta two is out. :)
> 
> I just installed beta 1 (9.0.93) on a Tecra 8200. The
> first few times it would hang at /sbin/loader (I
> think) - right before the graphical mode started up. I
> tried the 'nofb' option, but that didn't work. I then
> passed the following into the command line:
> 
> linux nofb pci=off
> 
> and the install start working correctly.
> I had to answer 'no' to 'have driver disk', and 'no'
> to 'load driver' when new devices were found on boot. 
> 
> I also had to change my boot into level 3, and disable
> pcmcia, since that service was hanging and preventing
> me from booting. I haven't tried any devices in pcmcia
> yet, so I don't know if it will work or not. After
> that, everything booted fine. I ran startx, and X
> started correctly.
> 
> My next question is 'where's gnome 2.4'? How do I get
> it?
> 
> Thanks!
> -Frank
> 
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