On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 19:45:37 +0000 (UTC) Beartooth <bearto...@comcast.net> wrote: > I've been trying to install Fedora 17 to an old Dell > PowerEdge 1420 (which began life as a server, with two drives > mirroring one another; but that's not so now). The CD drive doesn't > recognize DVDs; it can't seem to imagine booting from an external USB > drive that does; trying to run a live CD never even gets to a login > flash, because it can't imagine a monitor being 1680x1050 -- and > there's no xorg.conf to edit, afaict. Editing to get it to boot into > level 3 still gets the error message about the monitor. > > Is there a way??
Although the 1420 was introduced in 2004, I wouldn't call it a dinosaur; it's an x86_64 :D First of all, try booting with the "xdriver=vesa" argument. If it doesn't work, try text mode with the "text" argument. I don't bother with CDs or DVDs myself, I always just use the network install using the minimal boot.iso image in the /pub/fedora/linux//releases/17/Fedora/x86_64/os/images/ directory, which you can burn either to a CD or DVD or to a USB stick. -- Jussi Lehtola Fedora Project Contributor jussileht...@fedoraproject.org -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
