Help installing RH Linux 6.1 on laptop...

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

I'm thinking that the problem is with the graphical installer. I know that 
Red Hat 6.1 should default to the character cell if the graphical installer 
fails. Have you checked the laptop howtos to make sure that laptop will 
run Linux. One qucik suggestion is to try the boot disk from another 
distribution just to see if it boots successfully. Al  you would need is the 
diskette images. I discovered that the 2.2.13 kernels have problems with 
the vesa frame buffer code. There may be a way that you can force the 
Red Hat installer to boot in text mode. 

The boot floppy should not care how your hard disk is partitioned until it's 
time to partition it with Disk Druid.



On 23 Mar 00, at 11:07, Kevin M. Gleason wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I am writing this for Nancy who is trying to install Linux 6.1 Red Hat
> on a laptop with no luck.
> 
> Hardware:
> Mag Portable Verity VLT Series
> Intel MMX Technology
> Authentic AMD AMD-K6 3D Processor
> 32M Ram
> 3G Hard Disk (IDE)
> Built-in CDROM and floppy
> Trident 9660 Linear Accelerator for PCI
> 
> We fdisk'd her hard drive and wiped the dos partition then rebooted with
> Linux boot disk and CDROM.
> Computer hangs now at the welcome screen.
> 
> Any thoughts to make this install a reality? Needs Linux ASAP.
> 
> Kevin
> 
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Associate Director
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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