On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 15:27 +0000, John Austin wrote: > On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 13:35 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > Amadeus W. M. wrote: > > > > >> I've had occasional problems installing Windows XP > > >> and other Linux distributions like SuSE, > > >> but I've had a disproportionate number of problems with anaconda, > > >> on both 32- and 64-bit machines. > > > > > Does it happen if you install in text mode? > > > > That's a very good idea, thank you. > > I haven't tried installing on this machine in text mode. > > > > Actually, the point at which the machine hung - > > during installation of a package - > > doesn't seem to gel with a video error, > > but I shall try installation in text mode next. > > > > > > > > -- > > Timothy Murphy > > e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie > > tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 > > s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland > > > Hi > Are we talking i386 or x86_64 ? > > I have clean install of FC6 i386 on Athlon64 3200+ > About 20mins for FULL install Same here, only I figure it's too short as I had to install KDE from the net via yum. The install dialog could be tightened up a tad to allow installing "extra" apps from the CD. I wanted to install "everything" yet the install only used 3 CD's of a set of 5 and I'm sure I missed something somewhere to not be accessing the other 2 CD's during install. Whatever, it wasn't readily apparent from the install dialog and it's not like this is my first rodeo. Yippie ky yay, Ric
