On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Terry R. Grier wrote: > > When you get the grub menu - try editing (e) - and remove 'rhgb', > > 'quiet' options - and add '3' and boot (b) to console-only mode. > > is this durning installation ? or during the boot process? During the boot process > 2nd. I do not exactly know what the grub menu is. When you start the boot process - the first thing you see is the grub menu with the text 'Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.667)' When you see this hit 'e' for edit. > > Now get the latest updates - and reconfigure your X (with > > system-config-display) > I thought I had the lastes with version 3. every release has bugfix/security updates. Once you are able to boot up - run the following (as root) to get the updates. yum update > What is X exactly? gives you graphics (http://x.org/X11R6.8.1). The graphics card needs to be configured corectly before any of the graphical stuff work. > once I get to this flashing "cofiguring kernel paramenters" nothing I tpye > matters> The reason for this is - your graphics card is configured incorrectly. (and the hang is a bug in fedora - fixed in one of the updated packages) > Please point me were to read .. or explain a little more basic? > I am not trying to be ungratefull.. just honest. > thank you You need to grab a introductory book on linux. you might want to check out this thread: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-October/msg05105.html Satish
