FC 6 issues

Usman S. Ansari uansari at yahoo.com
Wed Nov 22 00:23:35 UTC 2006


Tony and Jim, thanks for your replies.
 
 I will have to reinstall the FC 6 (since it exist no more on my hardisk).
 
 Tony Nelson <tonynelson at georgeanelson.com> wrote:
 
 >>1. First it failed to discover my Dell FP 2001 monitor and G 400 video
 >>card and assume head less install.
 
 >Probably this can be worked around with some poking.  Possibly the
 >other-mode install than you used will help (Text vs. Graphics mode).
 
 Tony, I don't understand what you mean. 
 
 >>2. ... last thing it said was diabling XEN buffers and after that my
 >>machine froos
 
 >You probably clicked on the "Virtualization" button.  It should probably
 >have "Xen" in the name, and Anaconda should warn before installing that
 >additional work will be needed to boot the machine.
 
 Since, FC 6 selected text install, there was no button to click. I do not remmeber checking box next to Xen.
 
 Jim Cornette <fc-cornette at insight.rr.com> wrote:
 >> 1. First it failed to discover my Dell FP 2001 monitor and G 400 video 
 >> card and assume head less install.
 
 > The second choice is to install with 'linux xdriver=vesa' though the entry will
 > also be in the xorg.conf of the installed system. Before the fix, that is what we
 > would have had to resort to using. After the install, you could take care of 
 > the issue.
 
 I guess, I can install, FC 6, boot my machine with FC 4 kernel or 2.6.14.2 which I have built and mount FC 6 / as root. Than copy xorg.conf file.
 
 Do you think this will work ?
 
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