Running Anaconda in text mode

[Rick Stevens]

David Hunt wrote:
> In an earlier email, from the "Installing Fedora from ISO Images" 
> thread, I wrote:
> ...
> The installation ran all the way through to the post-install 
> configuration. Yehaaa!!!
> But, don't pull out the beer just yet, then it crashed as follows:
> 
> mini-wm: fatal io error 2 (connection reset by peer) on x server :1.0
> the application "anaconda" lost its connection to the display :1.0
> most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed the
> application
> install exited abnormally
> sending termination signals...
> 
> In a response to this, same thread,  Rick Stevens wrote:
> 
> I'd recommend you try the install again, but install in text mode--not 
> in graphic mode ("boot: text").
                     ^^^^^^^^^^
> If that works, then we can work on getting X functional.
> 
> In the "Anaconda crashes at random places during install" thread Josh 
> Burks wrote:
> 
>> ...
>> Anaconda still crashes when it tries to run X, but the text based install
>> ran without flaw. After installed, I stuck my NVIDIA GeForce4 MX440 and X
>> found the card and let me configure it. Everything seems great.
>>
> So, the question is...   How exactly do I force a text-based install?
> Is this a LILO option that I set in lilo.conf?

Text-based installs are done by simply entering "text" at the "boot:"
prompt when booting off the CD as is shown in the part above that you
quoted:

 > in graphic mode ("boot: text").

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