Bug 8453 - Cannot complete the installation process and the GUI installer tool does not work.
Summary: Cannot complete the installation process and the GUI installer tool does not ...
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: installer
Version: 6.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jay Turner
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-01-13 21:34 UTC by phongng
Modified: 2015-01-07 23:40 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2000-02-24 21:53:40 UTC
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Description phongng 2000-01-13 21:34:04 UTC
I cannot install RedHat 6.1 on a Sony VAIO PCV-R538DS PC. This PC is
running Window 98 with two FAT32 disk partitions: (1)hda1 5122M Win95
FAT32 (Drive C)and (2)hda5 11099M Win95 FAT32 (Drive D). I was not able
to start the GUI installation tool; however, I was able to start the
non-graphical install but could not finish the installation due to the
following error messages. I tried installing by booting from the floppy
disk, hard disk, and CDROM but still does not work.

The graphic card and monitorinstall on this desktop PC are:
* 128-bit 3D, 2X AGP graphic accelerator (ATiRage 128 GL)
* 16MB Video memory (SDRAM)
*ViewSonic VP150 ViewPanel (model:VLCDS21434-1
    (recommeded using VESA 1024x768@75HZ)

I downloaded the ATiRage 128 based chipset from Precision Insight but
cannot install the drive unless Linux is installed.
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Fatal server error:
no screen found

_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno= 111
Traceback(innermost last):
    File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 145, in ?
        from gui import Install Interface
    File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/gui.py", lin 9, in ?
        from gtk import *
    File "/usr/lib/python1.5/sit-packages/gtk.py", line 29, in ?
        _gtk.gtk_init()

Runtime Error: cannot open display
install exited abnormally
sending temination signals ... done
sendging kill signals ... done
unmounting file systems
    /mnt/source
    /dev/pts
    /proc
you may safely reboot your system
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Comment 1 Michael McConachie 2000-02-07 23:49:59 UTC
Workaround:
Use the "text expert" installation mode to install linux, in the X configuration
section choose the ATI Rage (or anyother mach64 chipset) and the values for your
monitor.  Skip the test for X (it won't work very well anyway ;) and finish the
installation.  Then the PI driver can be installed and X configured with the new
driver (see /usr/doc/XFCom-r128-glibc2.1-1.0.0/README for install instructions.)


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