[Wylug-help] installation problem

[C.Mackins at Bradford.ac.uk]

Shaun

Thanks for this advice. I'll be on the case straight away this evening.

Chris.

Quoting Shaun Laughey <shaun.laughey at pyr2.com>:

> C.Mackins at Bradford.ac.uk wrote:
>
> >Can anyone offer a newbie some help here with Mandrake 9.2 install?
> >
> >Last night I installed for the first time.  On the initial re boot though,
> the
> >first screen font size is minute - i.e. they cannot be read and appear to be
> a
> >series of dots smaller than the full stop within this text!!  I'm assuming
> it
> >requests username/password (but don't know if its for root/user - I assume
> >user); I enter a user name, and when I tab into what I think is the
> password
> >box, it will not allow any text to be entered (I've checked for CAPS/NUM
> lock too).
> >
> >I'd like to probably go back to the installation process and double check
> the
> >graphics settings but have no idea how to, or how to uninstall due to the
> fact
> >that even though I have good vision, you literally cannot make out any of
> the
> >screen text.
> >
> >Any ideas/suggestions - I've another 2 PCs to install and am just a tad
> >concerened that I may end up with no usable machines!
> >
> >Cheers.
> >
> >Chris.
> >
> >
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> If you press the control and alt keys together with F1 (a bit like the
> windows three fingered salute CTRL+ALT+DEL) you will get a terminal screen.
>  From there login as root and type
> /etc/init.d/xdm stop
> then
> drakxconf
> and go to the display settings and adjust and test them to your satisfaction
>
> I have seen this with missing fonts because of scratched install disks -
> mandrake may have given you an error that you missed during
> installation. Might be worthwhile checking your install log
> (/root/drakx/install.log) for errors about fonts/X and other such
> things. If there are missing files use urpmi to install them from the
> internet.
>
> Shaun Laughey,
>
> Failing over since 19:32
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