[Sussex] Not managing to comlete an install by myself.

[Stephen Williams]

Andre,

Some distros will write install logging information to another terminal
session during the install process. You can access these terminals by
pressing ALT + F2, ALT + F3, ALT + F4. ALT + F4 is the most likely. This
may tell you what the install process is doing behind the nice whizzy
unresponsive install GUI. Press ALT + F1 to get back to the install GUI.

Hope this is of use.

Steve Williams.


On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 19:02 +0100, Nic James Ferrier wrote:
> ANDRE ORCHISON <orchison at btinternet.com> writes:
> 
> >   clicking the install icon, all goes well until step '3 of 6'. 
> 
> What is "step 3 of 6"? Does it give you some information on what it's
> doing? That may help us trouble shoot.
> 
> Other than that powersave and things like that seem relevant.
> 
> It could be trying to find a network. In which case it might hang for
> a long while. 30 minutes plus if the laptop is not connected depending
> on the way the distro has been put together.
> 
> Try plugging it into the Internet (if it has a network adapter) and
> running the install again.
> 
> Otherwise, try leaving it for ages and ages... like an hour.
> 
> 
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