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Help with Fedora Core 4 Install!

by comppsyco Nov 17, 2005 6:57AM PST

Hi,
I'm using a homebuilt computer with a P4 2.8GHZ HT and a Radeon 9600. I already have WinXP SP2 on there, but before I installed it, I made a second partition for Linux. Then I set up Windows, downloaded Fedora Core and burned it (CD's) I the first one in and used the test function to test all the discs. They were all fine. Then it tried to start the graphical installer and the screen went blank. So I tried again, this time using the text installer. It got through the install, including the boot loader, but when I reboot and tried to boot to Fedora, when I went to launch X Windows, the screen went blank again. Should I just try reburning it or should I try a different distoro, or what?

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by damasta55r Nov 17, 2005 2:30PM PST

similar problem to me. I could'nt install. Before even the prompt for a second disk, the computer reboots all of a sudden during installation. Same place everytime. I didn't try the text installer. Someone told me to give it a try. But i don't have time, got too much to do, so i just stuck with another distro.

ROger

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What Distro?
by comppsyco Nov 18, 2005 8:43AM PST

what distro do you use now?

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by damasta55r Nov 18, 2005 11:58AM PST

I tried the text installer, and it still didn't work for me. I'm currently using linspire 5. It was free for a while by applying coupon at the website, you could download for free. But that was weeks/months ago. I would use suse, but don't have money to buy discs, nor time to download all the cds. As for ubuntu, its good, lots of followers here. Knoppix can be downloaded to the hard drive if you like that. There's also slackware, i haven't tried that. Depending on what you like, you can download and try it out if you have the time. There's also mandriva AKA Mandrake Linux.

Roger

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by comppsyco Nov 18, 2005 2:28PM PST

Thanks a bunch!

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