On Fri, 2009-07-03 at 10:11 -0400, Andre Robatino wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 07/03/2009 04:59 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > Since week ago I did a GUI install of F11 from a DVD I guess I believe > > that the GUI install works. But maybe not for your hardware. What > > hardware do you have and how did you try exactly to do the GUI install. > > For example which option did you pick from the boot screen? > > It's a machine that has successfully used the GUI install for all recent > versions of Fedora before F11. It has an AMD Duron CPU, 512 MB RAM, 40 > GB HDD. I myself did a successful GUI F11 install on a machine with a > much slower CPU and half the RAM, so that's probably not it. We used > the default option, but tried adding "xdriver=vesa" and "acpi=off" with > no luck. The GUI in anaconda works fine right up to the point where the > "creating filesystem on /dev/sda1" window starts and Xorg starts using > ~95% of the CPU. We let it run for almost a day with no progress, so > it's not just slow. It normally should complete in less than a minute. > We are attempting a clean install using the entire drive, the simplest > possible case. All choices on the previous pages are the defaults. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > OK, let me admit it I was having the same problem with the F11 DVD. I cleaned the DVD with alcohol and it worked fine. This is especially important if you got the DVD from Cheap-bytes. It can't hurt. Try to clean the DVD. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
