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Hei, I noticed few a little bit strange things when installing Red Hat Linux 6.1 via Graphical User Interface Installation: - my hardware is quite old (AST Bravo/AST display)but still working :-) - I start with RH boot diskette (6.1), RH 6.1 CD-ROM is also loaded. (no bootable CD-ROM). Package is Official Red Hat Linux 6.1 Standard. - GUI Installation starts and everything is OK since install-process comes to X Configuration panel. - my monitor (AST Vision) does not appear on the monitor-list, so I have to choice Custom. But I can't, because there is no Custom-choice on the list!? - only way to pass through the installation is text-mode installation (Custom is available there). So, is this true or is there something wrong in my hardware environment (except it is old)? Second, - when you start text-mode installation, you can't have CD-ROM already loaded - if you have, your keyboard configuration will fail (finnish-keyboard settings does not appear and with Disk Druid there will be big difficulties forexample with /-sign) - how to make it work: 1. load boot diskette 2. start computer -> boot: text 3. select Local CD-ROM (here the installer says it can't find Red Hat CD-ROM loaded... (could the message be here: Load Red Hat Linux 6.1 CD-ROM...and so on). Anyway, load CD-ROM here. After you have described the language and keyboard-type (fi-latin1) everything goes fine. Okay, these are little problems with old hardware and I suppose you already are familiar with them, but anyway, this was my report. With best regards, Timo Granfelt, timo.granfelt@slk.fi Finland
Xconfig is vastly improved in the latest version of the installer (available in RawHide) so this problem with not being able to specify a generic monitor is gone. The problem with the keyboard config failing is also fixed in the latest installer.