Fedora core 4 installation fails
 

I've tried ideas from numerous posts and nothing has worked. The anaconda installer starts and my screen goes black with a flashing cursor in the top left corner. I goes no further.

Are you using the x86 or the x86_64 ISOs?

-A

I'm using the x86_64 ISO
Here is more info that may help?
Installing Fedora core 4 64 bit version. This is what happens in graphical mode
Running anaconda
Probing for video card Vesa (generic)
Probing Monitor unknown
Probing mouse 3 wheel
Waiting for xserver This last messege flashes by so fast I can't get it exactly. It then just locks up at a black screen with a cursor (not flashing) in the upper left screen corner?
This is what happens when I try to install in text
I get through a few options. Accepting the default. Then I get
An unhandled exception has occurred. This is most likely a bug. Please copy the full text of this exception and file a detailed bug report against anaconda at http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 1160, in ?
intf .run(id, dispatch)
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line
496, in run
dispatch.gotonext ()
File ",usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py",
line 174, in gotonext
self .moveStep()
File ",/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py",
line 242, in moveStep
rc = apply(func, self .bindArgs(args))
When I hit enter I get
install excited abnormally
and then I can reboot. It bacically aborts.
What can I do?

Honestly I wouldn't know what to do in your place.. I heard somewhere that the x86_64 Version of Fedora has some issues yet to be resolved. Did you make sure that the ISOs weren't corrupt when you burned them? Was the media check succesful? If yes in both cases, then I wouldn't know what's wrong, sorry..

-A

The media check was OK. Thanks for your reply. Can anyone help with this problem?

It's been a couple months since this post. Has there been any updates or changes to Fedora core since this post that would fix my problem? Would it be worth downloading Fedora core and burning again, to install or would I have the same problem as 2 Months ago? Would the CDs 1-5 be more complete then the DVD download?

The CD's and the DVD images for FC4 have not changed since the where first posted. The 5 CD set is the same as the DVD image nothing more nothing less.

As a suggestion try install in text mode instead, when the menu screen is displayed type; linux text

You may want to try CentOS-4.2 x86_64 instead, pretty much the same thing just not as 'bleeding edge' as FC4. Installed and working nicely for me on my laptop (Acer AS5002WLMi-100GB).

http://www.centos.org/

I've got a 64-bit laptop that the installation DVD from Linux Format magazine works well to install the 32-bit versions, but will not install the 64-bit version. The DVD and CDs boot okay, but it beeps then resets to the BIOS screen and reboots into the initial install screen as before--ad infinitum. The MD5 checks out for the DVD and the Fedora Core 4 CDs, but one cannot switch in midstream (i.e. I've tried to get past the boot-from-BIOS with the LXF DVD then insert the 64-bit distro DVD or CDs but it won't recognize these disks--other than to check disk integrity). I suppose I could "limp"along with the 32-bit FC4 except that I seem to have problems with the "smart" rpms that realize it's a 64-bit processor and then try to install the 64-bit files in places the 32-bit version does not seem to expect. Has anyone solved this problem?

Is there something I can raw-write to reconcile whatever it is that is different between the LXF 32-bit FC4 DVD and the 64-bit DVD/CDs? Is there a way to say, use Dynabolic to make a "live" CD to boot and then install the 64-bit FC4?

i've got the same problem.

It doesn't matter, wether you take the DVD or the five CDs, it's the same problem.

I tryed installing with the option "lowres" and when I get past anaconda and let the screen stay black for a minute or so, it'll display some dark-pinkish vertical lines, that make the word "Fedora" displayed fuzzy on the screen.
And that's where the system won't go any further.

First i thought, it's an issue with the combination of my graphicscard and monitor, so I pluged in my old 19" CRT, but i got more or less the same result.

I'm completely stuck, where you propably are as well...
And, I've got no idea how to solve this prob.

However, seems like many other people have the same problem, that's what i learned, while searching through this and other help-forums...

Seems like it has nothing to do with the Graficscard or monitors, but with Fedora itself, propably a big, slimy bug or something...

regards, polemon

Since it is freezing when it normally starts the X server, I am guesing that this is problem with the ATI X700. After doing a google/linux search on that card, many people have the same problem.

If you have an extra graphics card lying around plug that in and install whatever distro, and then add the ati drivers.

I'd give that a try except that it's a laptop and a bit a tight squeeze ;-)

rawscores my last post was directed towards 1inxs, I figured that he does not have a laptop because of the motherboard, I may be wrong though, for your problem, what do you mean when you say

Can you be more specific? Can you see the installations first screen? etc.

Fedora Core 4 x86_64 installation problem
 

I have a intel based system with the following
configuration:
1. P4 3.4GHz HT 64 bit enabled
2. Intel 945GTP motherboard 64 bit enabled
3. 1 GB DDR2 RAM
4. SATA HDD 160GB

The problem is during the installation of Fedora core 4
64bit on my system, the following appears:
Installing Fedora core 4 64 bit version. This is what
happens in graphical mode
Running anaconda
Probing for video card Vesa (generic)
Probing Monitor unknown
Probing mouse 3 wheel
Waiting for xserver
Xserver cannot start.....This last messege flashes by
so fast I can't get it exactly. It then just locks up
at a black screen with a cursor (not flashing) in the
upper left screen corner? the message comes " sreeen 1
not found" and the installation went in text mode. But
after finishing when i rebooted my computer, the
graphics is not working, it says cannot run X server
service, I tried to reconfigure the graphics with the
automated message that comes after the error, but its
not working. Its working only in text mode.
Whereas when I previously installed Fedora Core 3
i386, everything was working fine.

Please help me out of this situation. I am new to
Linux.

Regards
Swarup

Try doing as root of course;

cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf_old ;make a copy of the file

system-config-display --set-resolution=800x600 --set-depth=16 --videoram=16384

Hopefully this should give a basic working video configuration. Since this is a new installation, you may want to run an update first; yum update

problem with Fedora 4 x86_64
 

Hi Lenard!!! i have tried the following command you have suggested, but when I execute the command it says "cannot open display" and it exits!!! Please suggest further action!!!




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