FC 5 black screen before install

[sholtz at d.umn.edu]

No.  The Sony Trinitron is a CRT.

> Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 09:06:56 +0100
> From: "Paul Smith" <phhs80 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: FC 5 black screen before install
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> On 5/1/06, fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
> <fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com> wrote:
>> I have downloaded, sha1sum'ed and burned a set of CD install discs.
>> After booting from disc 1, I hit <enter> to start a graphical
>> install and get a black screen.  I have tried several variants of
>> 'linux xxx' at the boot: prompt and all result in the black screen.
>> 
>> I'm running:
>> Asus A7V333
>> AMD Athlon XP 1800
>> 512 MB RAM
>> nVidia NV15DDR GeForce2 Ti
>> Sony Trinitron Multiscan G400
>> 
>> Any ideas on getting an install process that I can see executing?
> 
> Is your monitor a LCD one?
> 
> Paul

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