[ltp] Problem with installer

[Rob bell]

Hello,

Last night I was imaging a new drive in my ThinkPad A21p with RedHat 
7.2.  I had started with a bare drive and booted RH from CD.  The 
installation process (I used the GUI) was going great and was almost 
finished when it prompted me to choose a display resolution.  I tried 
'testing' a couple resolutions that th A21p supports and on one it just 
locked up.  The screen went black and never came back.  After trying a 
lot of keys and waiting a while I finally just powered off, intending to 
just restart the install process.

Now, when I boot from the RH CD and launch the GUI installer, it dies 
before the GUI actually comes up with a 'blue screen of death'.  I don't 
have the system in front of me now, so I can't repeat the error message, 
but I was hoping someone might have a suggestion of what to do.  I don't 
care about the contents of the HD at this point and would like to just 
wipe the partitions and start over.  I think the RH GUI installer will 
do that for me if I can get it to run.  Why would it fail to run now 
when it ran fine the first time?  There were no changes to the hardware 
at all.  The only difference is that the drive (in the main HD bay) is 
not bare anymore.

Alternatively, since the system on the HD is basically fully installed 
and functional with the exception of the display resolution settings 
(and whatever setup comes after that), is it possible to launch the GUI 
for changing these settings directly from the HD instead of the CD?  If 
I could pick up where it locked up that would be fine too.

Any ideas are welcome!

Thanks,
Rob

RobDBell _at_ netscape.net


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