Description of problem: Cannot install Fedora 9 Preview in text mode Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: 1. Download boot.iso of 4/10/2008, create cd and run. The system is a Dell Inspiron 5000 (old). Graphics card not recognized so gui install not available. Use text mode. 2. Create custom layout uses VolumeGroup and says that "edit layout only available in graphics mode". This is a catch22 as the graphics is not recognized. 3. Provide a url to test install and proceed with setup after providing network settings etc. 4. url entered wrong, so click edit. "edit url is not available in text mode" It seems that the installer is abandoning older hardware. So it is not really clear if this is a bug, feature or policy decision. I will do a test install of ubuntu and see if that deals with the hardware. Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: If options can be changed in gui mode then I would expect them to be changeable in text mode. If that is not possible then a nice big upfront disclaimer on text mode limitations and/or hardware not supported would be helpful. Additional info:
There's lots of things that aren't supported in text mode due to limitations of toolkits, time, etc. I'd rather get to the bottom of why graphical mode didn't start -- can you give a bit more information about ht emachine you're trying to install on?
Please let me know the easiest way to capture the data you want from the install process and I can send it. If this does not work, what is the magic incantation to get these detail if I install some other linux version?
You can go to tty2 and scp the /tmp/anaconda.log, /tmp/X.log, and /tmp/syslog files to another machine. That's probably the easiest way to do it. If not you can probably convince a floppy or USB key to work but that requires a lot more effort.
I just ran into what was possibly the same issue. Switching to vt2, and doing a "df", it appeared that /mnt/source was mounted twice. Once to /dev/sr0, and once through a loopback device. I did a "umount /mnt/source" twice, then manually loopback mounted the Fedora DVD .iso at /mnt/source. For me that was: mount -r -o loop /mnt/isodir/Fedora-9-Preview-i386-DVD.iso /mnt/source Did a retry, and installation proceeded. This even bit me during graphical install using an on-disk based install.
Created attachment 303879 [details] Anaconda dump uploaded after installation failure This is the dump I got while installing over http using the packages contained into F9 Beta DVD iso
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Peter - is this still happening in F9 final?