Fedora Core 1 for AMD64 test1 installation problem

[Joshua Baker-LePain]

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 at 3:24pm, Mario J. Borgnia wrote

> I am trying to install Fedora Core 1 for AMD64 test1 on a system with
> the following specs:
> 
> CPU: AMD Opteron 246 (dual)
> RAM: 16 GB
> Motherboard: Tyan Thunder K8W V1.01a
> GPU: NVIDIA Quadro FX 500
> 
> I have tested the installation media and it passed the tests.
> I boot the system with the installation CDs and it will proceed until
> loading the GUI but then it aborts with  the following message
> 
> Install exited abnormally
> 
> And prompts for reboot
> 
> I have tried booting with acpi=off and with linux text. Same problem.

For the preview release and with an 8GB RAM system, I had to boot with 
'mem=2048M' to get it to install (and then with acpi=off to boot the 
installed system).  Give that a shot.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University