I am unable to install Red Hat 6.1 on a P90, 32MB internal memory, 1GB harddrive, a 3c905 NIC. The video card, ET4000/W32P rev C, is embedded on the motherboard. Installation method is using FTP to ftp.sunet.se, pub/Linux/distributions/redhat/current/i386. I use a bootdisk with version 6.1 "bootnet.img" and DHCP for IP- addresses. Starting installation works like a charm, and I choose to install a KDE Workstation with automatic harddrive partitioning. As the installation program continues loading files off the ftp-server (still in text mode), the system reports errors with the video card and halts. At this point, it is possible to reboot or enter debug-mode, which is of no help to me. I tried the installation several times, with PNP enabled or disabled in BIOS, but with no luck. I checked to make sure, and the video card is on the tier-1 list... (With the hardware above, installing Red Hat 6.0 works like a charm, so I'll stick with it for now)
I had a report about this, and got a traceback (manually copied, so may not be 100% accurate): Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 134 in ? result = xserver.startX() File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/xserver.py", line 44, in startX x.probe() File "/usr/ilb/python1.5/site-packages/xf86config.py", line 170, in probe self.vidCards.append (self.cards (server [5:])) File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/xf86config.py", line 118, in cards card = cards [thecard] KeyError: ET4000 W32i
Is this resolved in the 6.2 release. We found a bug which was causing this very thing with a number of video cards, but we think that we closed that hole.
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