Created attachment 685478 [details] Screen capture of Fedora 18 install under VMWare It appears Fedora 18 installer ignores the display settings provided by VMWare 5.0.2. The install was occurring on Mac OS X 10.8.2 (Intel, x64); and I was installing Fedora 18, x64. Sorry about the mis-classification. "Install" and "Installer" was not a choice; and I could not proceed without making a choice.
Is this the only screen that looks like this?
Let me do another install, and get you a complete set of screen shots. Working form memory (use at your own risk), the first issue is with the submitted screen shot. Then one or two following screens suffer it also. Once I stumble through TABs and ENTERs to get the root password set, I can reboot and the issue is cleared. After reboot, I am prompted for the first user, etc, and everything is OK again. Jeff
Created attachment 686085 [details] Screen shots of install process Attached are screen captures of the steps in the install process. First, there are two VM Configuration shots. They are f18-install-vm-config-N.png. The relevant image seems to be 'disable 3D graphics'. Otherwise, I get a blank desktop screen with no choice to move on to an installation. Second, there are install screen shots. They are f18-install-N.png. Image 1 (f18-install-1.png) was the last screen that appeared to honor the display settings. Image 2 (f18-install-2.png) was the first screen that appeared to have issues. Image 5 caused this bug report because I could not see the buttons when TAB'ing. It made it difficult to get to screen six (enter root password).
See also: Bug 901551 - Anaconda Screens are larger than VM 800x600
Thanks Steve. What do you suggest for hardware and virtual machines that only support lower display resolutions? I keep a couple Fedora boxes around because the project almost always has the latest version of GCC and other software. As such, Fedora is part of my engineering/build process. Put another way, its easier to use the latest Fedora distribution than it is to fetch/build some packages (and work through the package dependencies and side-by-side installation issues).
As a workaround with the Live image in a VM, changing the display resolution before starting the installer might be sufficient: Activities:System Tools:System Settings:Displays Tested with the vmware display adapter emulation in qemu-kvm: $ qemu-kvm -m 2048 -hda f18-test-2.img -cdrom ~/xfr/fedora/F18/F18-Final/Final/Fedora-18-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso -vga vmware -boot menu=on -usbdevice mouse $ rpm -q qemu-kvm qemu-kvm-1.0.1-2.fc17.x86_64 Workarounds for hardware might be possible using tab-counting, a text mode install, or a remote install. What hardware with a low resolution display are you installing to?
What these pictures indicate is that the screen is built too wide for gtk to show at this resolution. It can have lots of causes, but one of the most common is that word wrapping is not correctly set on some label. I believe this bug is fixed by the same patch as for bug 901551. If you can please retest with Fedora 19 alpha when released and let us know, it would be very helpful. Thanks.
Thanks Chris. > If you can please retest with Fedora 19 alpha when released Yes, I would be happy to test. 'Fedora 19 download' is not producing useful search results. For example, I can find 'Fedora 19 Alpha Release Criteria' and 'Fedora 19 Beta Release Criteria', but I can't find the download. Would you happen to know where the image is located? Jeff
http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/
Thanks Chris. I downloaded Fedora-19-Alpha-TC3-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso from /pub/alt/stage/19-Alpha-TC3/Live/x86_64. I tried to setup F19-alpha on a VMWare 5.0.3 instance running on Mac OS X 10.8.3. I can boot the image, but I have problems around the Live User login screen. When I click 'Live User', I fall back to text mode that displays "ISOLINUX 4...." which loops immediately back to Live User login screen. So I never really get to a GNOME desktop or launcher (I'm not sure what they are calling it nowadays), and I can't proceed to an install. What would you like me to do? Is there a way I can help you troubleshoot?
(In reply to comment #10) > I can boot the image, but I have problems around the Live User login screen. > When I click 'Live User', I fall back to text mode that displays "ISOLINUX > 4...." which loops immediately back to Live User login screen. So I never > really get to a GNOME desktop or launcher (I'm not sure what they are > calling it nowadays), and I can't proceed to an install. Same problem with with the i686 version: Fedora-19-Alpha-TC3-i686-Live-Desktop.iso
I don't really know; that's pretty far outside my realm of expertise. I suggest asking on one of the various Fedora mailing lists. Perhaps someone else has seen that problem.