i seam to have a strange problem trying to install FC3 or FC4
i have a small home network of 7 machines and in the last few weeks i have bbeen attewmpting to upgrade the 4 linux boxes to FC4 from a mixture of RH8 to FC1

all 4 machines fail to start the graphical Installer they probe and find tha various video cards that range from an ATI rage 64Meg, a SIS card of some type, an Intel extreme, and an intel 865. all four of these boxes share one monitor being a Dell E77P

Basically what happens is the machine boots to cd and you select the install option it then runs off and starts its blue text screens where it installs any other drivers it may during the install. it then starts to probe the video card and Monitor its at this point it decides it dosnt like my Dell monitor.

im having these problems on FC3 and FC4 but i knoww the disks are ok as i hav3e used them to install my laptop. as yet i only have one of the 4 machines upgraded and that was achieved by installing it on another monotor i borowed from a friend and then telling gnome that the monitor was a generic CRT. doing that it runs fine on the DELL monitor

i still want to fix this issue if i can as i dont really want to have to borrow a monitor every time i want to reinstall

any ideas
Josh

If the dell is very new, the fedora install image may not have the driver compiled into it (unlikely).

A workaround would be to do run anaconda in text mode.

You may just need to pass the monitor stats as kernel parameters at the boot: prompt.

the monitor was bought seccond hand about 4 months ago and i think is about 3 years old do i would doubt that its to new

as far as text mode goes well that kinda worked but it wouldnt configure x at all soooo not much help

as far as passing monitor params well im not sure how to do that anyone have any ideas where ot find infomation about that

the monitor was bought seccond hand about 4 months ago and i think is about 3 years old do i would doubt that its to new

as far as text mode goes well that kinda worked but it wouldnt configure x at all soooo not much help

as far as passing monitor params well im not sure how to do that anyone have any ideas where ot find infomation about that

At the boot: prompt, you type

linux lowres

... forces a low-res screen for installation. Or

linux resolution=HHHxYYY

... for an arbitrary resolution.

This is instead of just pressing enter.

There is also a vga= command.

I've been looking for some sort of comprehensive list of kernel boot: commands and been unsuccessful. Anyone?