On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 02:02:56PM -0800, Mark G. Spencer wrote: > Hi Felix, > > Interesting .. I got some advice from Michal, who mentioned it may be X related. I tried installing using "linux text" but it didn't seem to make any difference, I got the same error message. For the hell of it I used "linux nofb" just now, and got a different error message. The pause was longer between when the netstg2.img finishes loading and when the install dies, and it now says: > > "Running anaconda, the Fedora Core system installer - please wait ..." > "install exited abnormally" > > And that's it. Mandrake 9.2 installs on this laptop without any problems, but it's bootdisk sees my Targus PCMCIA driven CD-ROM drive. RH and Fedora don't, (I tried all the driver disk images on the FC disc1) so I'm trying this FTP install. > > Possibly I'm doomed here.. ;) > > Mark > You might try the following magic that worked for me. When ask to test do it. After the test hit continue. In my case the, error did not appear (95% of the time). -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University 715 Stadium Dr. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx