[ltp] Problem with installer

[Norman Levin]

Rob bell wrote:
>> 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'.

* sounds like a bad XF86Config-4 might exist on your disk.  I never have the
installer do X.  Always delay for separate configurations.  Works better in class
when we have topic on X (which is why I always moved it up close to install
topic)
and gets you past these glitches.

 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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