But, I'm trying to change that with an installation of Fedora Core 1 on my Dell P4 system in a dual-boot environment...
Anyway, the problem I'm having is that once the installer gets to the graphical first-time configuration screen (Welcome screen), it freezes and no keyboard commands work.
After shutting down and turning the machine back on, it boots again fine, and goes through a list of checks in text mode:
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Mounting local filesystem [OK]
Enabling local filesystem quotas [OK]
Enabling swap space [OK]
Initializing firewire controller (obci1934) [OK]
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Then it just sits there doing nothing (no hard drive light activity...) a three-fingered salute will cancel the process and restart OK.
After the restart it tries to go through the graphical first-time routine and freezes.
I tried going through the interactive mode, saying 'y' to everything.
When I say 'y' to enable firstboot that's when it hangs -- no keyboard or mouse recognition.
I'm not sure what would help diganose this problem, but I did copy down my boot settings from GRUB
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root (hdo, 7) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi rhgb initrd /initrd-2.4.221.2115.nptl.img
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My system is all standard Dell components... 512 RAM, 40GB HD, P4, SB Audigy, MS Intellimouse, on-board ethernet, etc.
Thanks in advance,
Chris
