which buttons? I mean... I got that damn blue screen as well, but in another point... and the problem was with acpi... I don't know whether that's your case... booting with acpi=off... norton --- QVIDQVID LATINE DICTVM SIT ALTVM VIDETVR. On Tue, 18 May 2004, david wrote: > I have an older machine, but one that is within the minima in the release > notes. > > I managed to get the installer boostrapped via a diskette boot which turned > into a CD boot, entered: > linux text > > The system then displayed > Installing the 7aicxxxx > (not sure what the precise spelling is) > > After about 30 minutes of blue screen with the buttons menu on the bottom, > I get > > Running anaconda, the Fedora Core system installer - please wait ... > > which remained on the screen unchanged for about an hour and I simply gave up. > > Computer details: > Dell Workstation 400 MT > Pentium II, 300 mhz > 40g ATA hard drive > floppy, cdrom reader > ethernet card > > Even though the system cannot bootstrap from CDROM, I used a BootManager > http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/. > > I had similar problems with the FC1 load, but resolved it by using the two > diskettes (boot and drivers), and loading from the network. > > Does anyone have any ideas? > > David Kurn > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >