paullynch
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Joined: June 2005 |
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Posted: June 28 2005,19:48 |
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Congratulations on a pretty useful liveCD.
I just ran through a build and hit one problem, which I suspect is down to my video card, an nvidia GeForce of some type. Boot from CD with no parameters works fine up to the point where it starts X; I can just see the two xauth lines flash up, then the screen goes black.
Booting using failsafe works, and I seem to be able to choose any setting combinations I like; using vga=normal or vga=795 (for example) brings up the X config dialog, and eventually a black screen. I'll have to work my way through the hardware cheat codes next.
I notice that there isn't a forum section for basic booting problems like that - I had to puzzle through the USB and HD install sections and the HOWTO section before I decided to post here.
Another thing is that I was confused by the discussions of USB install, HD install, frugal and so on; perhaps that is something that could be mentioned in the installation section of the docs? There is also no mention that I found that the iso builds a liveCD as opposed to an installation CD; I assumed that was the case, and luckily I was right.
Next up for me is a USB install; my (only 2yo) hardware doesn't boot from USB, so I'll need to create a floppy - however, they are obsolete in this household, so I may well be perverse and create a boot CD to boot to USB! Once I figure out how, that is.
Once again, thanks for a great distro.
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