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| 231826 | 2004-04-24 13:10:00 | I have installed Redhat 9 on my laptop in what I call a relatively successful setup, given the fact that It was my first time. However, I encountered two problems along the way.. I proceeded through the screens to setup linux the best I could, to the point that it started installing the OS. Then my first problem occcured when I got to the 'boot diskkette screen', where it froze and forced a restart (this has happened everytime I tried to install the OS). After removing the CD and rebooting, it started to load ok until I came to a text prompt saying 'localhost login:'. I typed 'root', followed by the password I created during installation, then it said '[root@localhost root]#'. I have no iddea what to put here, but tried 'localhost.localdomain' since I read something like this in the documentation. It is now starting to piss me off a bit and all of a sudden, I am realising why Windows is so popular :| XP installs first time, everytime! A dozen goes out to anyone that can help overcome this!!!!!!!!!! |
jerry_23 (3745) | ||
| 231827 | 2004-04-24 13:38:00 | Hi Jerry, Basically you are logging in to the computer without X configured. If you set up your video card and monitor during the install type startx from the root@localhost root# prompt. This will start the GUI. If you didn't configure the graphics during the install you need to type Xconfigurator to start the Redhat graphics setup program. HTH :) |
Gorela (901) | ||
| 231828 | 2004-04-24 13:44:00 | Ahhh sweet! Well that may fix the loadup problem, but this brings me to my first problem, it crashes and freezes everytime it gets to the disk boot up option, and if I've read the documentation right, the graphics configuration and monitor setup come after the disk boot screen, which I cannot get past . Would there be some kind of downloadable utility that could fix a corrupted file or something, cause thats what it seems like? I performed a media check at the start of the install, and it all came out ok . |
jerry_23 (3745) | ||
| 231829 | 2004-04-24 13:49:00 | as a side note, I didn't configure the graphics during the install, so where would I type the Xconfigurator prompt? | jerry_23 (3745) | ||
| 231830 | 2004-04-24 14:18:00 | Hopefully the constant crashes that you are talking about are just the ones you have experienced during the install :) Since you have managed to reboot the computer and it stops at the localhost logon obviously the boot loader (most likely Grub) has installed. This would mean that most if not all files have been loaded onto the computer. At the localhost prompt log in as root again. When you get the root@localhost root# type Xconfigurator ( I'm fairly sure it is an upper case X :8} ). The thing to watch with linux is that it is case sensitive. The Xconfigurator will let you set up the video and graphics for your system. After you have configured X type startx to get the graphical desktop started. A good way to spend the night :D |
Gorela (901) | ||
| 231831 | 2004-04-24 14:25:00 | Yes, it appears most of the system files required have loaded, and as I say, the doco's say that the monitor and graphics configuration come after the boot diskette loader creation, which I can't get past. I have tried Xconfigurator at the 'root@localhost root#' but again, get the following error.. -bash: Xconfigurator: command not found [root@localhost root]# I'll keep trying that Xconfigurator for another hour or so in other areas of prompts. |
jerry_23 (3745) | ||
| 231832 | 2004-04-24 14:51:00 | Rather strange that the Xconfigurator isn't working. With bash giving you that error it is basically implying that X hasn't been installed on your computer. I would check out the Linux Laptop (http://www.linux-laptop.net) page. This has a number of links to people who have installed linux on laptops, what problems they had and how they over-came them. You could also check to see if X has been installed on your computer by typing cd /etc then type ls which is the linux equivalent of dir :) See if you have a directory called X11 which is where the graphics files should be located. |
Gorela (901) | ||
| 231833 | 2004-04-24 15:29:00 | Im more inclined to think that my install disk has corrupted or something, to be crashing at the same stage everytime..and I've also noticed that all of the lights on the laptop come on and stay on when this happens, and nothing works except the power button. | jerry_23 (3745) | ||
| 231834 | 2004-04-25 06:46:00 | Modest success, after reading...something...I went to the BIOS and disabled 'Legacy USB support', and this got me through the disk setup, and into the graphics and monitor configuration. My next problem is, it seems to have my graphics chip in the list, but my choice of monitor is the Generic 'laptop display 800x600'. This is where I suppose the problem is because when restarting, it goes through its paces then does something in text mode with some sort of message saying..'horosynch= none vertsynch=none'. Then it displayes a blue box with nothing but 'yes' & 'no'. After playing around, this is as far as I get. |
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