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 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.