Re: Unable to do F40 Live Workstation install on machine with very old graphics

2024-04-27 Thread Andre Robatino
"liveinst --vnc" not working was filed as a bug 13 years ago and closed at EOL, I reopened it. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678354 -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@list

Re: Unable to do F40 Live Workstation install on machine with very old graphics

2024-04-27 Thread Andre Robatino
The Linux video mode numbers are at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VESA_BIOS_Extensions#Linux_video_mode_numbers . Since the best resolution of the old CRT I have connected to the machine is 1280x1024, I tried "vga=792", "vga=794" and "vga=795" and each of those work. When in the 1024x768 modes

Re: Unable to do F40 Live Workstation install on machine with very old graphics

2024-04-27 Thread Andre Robatino
I found a solution. When booting the live image, I went into the Troubleshooting menu and looked at the boot options for starting in basic graphics mode. It had not only "nomodeset" but also "vga=791". By booting with both of those, not just "nomodeset", I can boot the live image into graphical

Re: Unable to do F40 Live Workstation install on machine with very old graphics

2024-04-27 Thread Felix Miata
John Pilkington composed on 2024-04-27 12:54 (UTC+0100): > Felix Miata wrote: ... >> System: >>Host: mcp61 Kernel: 6.6.23-1-longterm arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc >> v: 13.2.1 clocksource: tsc avail: acpi_pm parameters: >> root=LABEL= >> ipv6.disable=1 net.ifnames=0 noresume c

Re: Unable to do F40 Live Workstation install on machine with very old graphics

2024-04-27 Thread John Pilkington
On 27/04/2024 04:28, Felix Miata wrote: Andre Robatino composed on 2024-04-27 02:49 (UTC): I have an old machine from 2008 with very old integrated graphics (GeForce 6150SE nForce 430). Up to and including F39, I was able to do a Live Workstation install simply by using the nomodeset boot opt

Re: Unable to do F40 Live Workstation install on machine with very old graphics

2024-04-26 Thread Felix Miata
Andre Robatino composed on 2024-04-27 03:56 (UTC): > I have 2 desktops, each running Fedora, the one in question is a backup that > I normally just log into with ssh and do updates, and would only use normally > if the main machine dies. I'll probably be buying a new machine in a year or > two

Re: Unable to do F40 Live Workstation install on machine with very old graphics

2024-04-26 Thread Andre Robatino
I have 2 desktops, each running Fedora, the one in question is a backup that I normally just log into with ssh and do updates, and would only use normally if the main machine dies. I'll probably be buying a new machine in a year or two and this one will go into storage, all of its hardware is ol

Re: Unable to do F40 Live Workstation install on machine with very old graphics

2024-04-26 Thread Felix Miata
Andre Robatino composed on 2024-04-27 02:49 (UTC): > I have an old machine from 2008 with very old integrated graphics (GeForce > 6150SE nForce 430). Up to and including F39, I was able to do a Live > Workstation install simply by using the nomodeset boot option. With F40 that > no longer works

Unable to do F40 Live Workstation install on machine with very old graphics

2024-04-26 Thread Andre Robatino
I have an old machine from 2008 with very old integrated graphics (GeForce 6150SE nForce 430). Up to and including F39, I was able to do a Live Workstation install simply by using the nomodeset boot option. With F40 that no longer works - it fails to come up in graphical. I ended up doing a neti