[Wylug-help] installation problem

[James Holden]

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Hi Chris,

I'd agree with Shaun here. I've seen this kind of thing before, and it's
true that the Mandrake installer silently fails when it can't read an
RPM from the install CDs.

Drop me a mail (off list!) of your address and I'll send you a set of
tested CDs over.

James



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Subject: Re: [Wylug-help] installation problem
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 11:18:25 +0000
From: Shaun Laughey <shaun.laughey at pyr2.com>
To: C.Mackins at Bradford.ac.uk
CC: wylug-help at wylug.org.uk
References: <1079946633.405ead89c52dd at webmail.brad.ac.uk>

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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