Welcome Screen Hangs

janky · 01-18-2005, 05:03 PM

I've tried 3 different rebuilds of my hardrive today and everything goes just fine until the welcome screen comes up. As soon as I attempt to click on the "Next" button in the lower right corner the welcome screen with the license agreement hangs and I can't go any further. This happened on all 3 installs I did. Anyone know what this happens? Thanks!

cswor · 02-08-2005, 04:23 PM

try a text install. you can select this at the intial boot prompt.

archdev · 02-08-2005, 04:25 PM

Did you check the md5 sums on the ISO's before you burned them? More so, did you check media on each CD before you continued installation?

janky · 02-08-2005, 04:29 PM

I was able to get Fedora to install but I have to use the vesa video driver. I thought it was my Nvidia video card that was causing problems so I installed a Radeon card and I was still getting the same problems until I manually changed the driver back to vesa. My machine doesn't hang but I can't run Fedora 3 using any of the manufacturer video drivers. I just think Fedora 3 isn't ready for primetime and is a bit buggy on 64 bit AMD hardware, no?

cswor · 02-08-2005, 05:24 PM

I haven't had this problem on an HP AMD64 laptop. It has Nvidia video. There were some issues but not this. I had much more problems with wireless.