Re: BDI EMC

["Steve Carlisle" <quatsein-at-island.net>]

ray, thanks for the response. I suspected it might have to do with
the video and tried another card, but it did not help. I still think it
is card related. I have since tried the install on another machine
and it went well.

Steve

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> From: Ray <rehenry-at-up.net>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <emc-at-nist.gov>
> Subject: Re: BDI EMC
> Date: Friday, May 11, 2001 8:42 AM
> 
> 
> On Thu, 10 May 2001, you wrote:
> > Paul, I am having trouble with a BDI install on a P100, 16M, 8gig IDE.
> > I get an "Exception Occurred" warning box with 3 file failures
referenced
> > to usr/bin/anaconda and a GnomeWorkstation failure. Are there any 
> > minimum hardware requirements for this install?
> 
> Steve
> 
> Let me jump in a bit but I'll leave the expert stuff for Paul.  
> 
> Of the BDI install problems (3) that I know of (2) have had to do with
> the video driver chip.  I had trouble with an onboard sis chip that used
> ram for video memory.  I installed a used s3 card with 4meg on it and the
> install went ahead like a charm.  The second video problem was cured when
> the installer also used an outboard video card.
> 
> It sounds like your install dropped into the text mode because Red Hat
> didn't like your video chip.  In some tests that we did here, Paul was
> beginning to think that the text mode install was broken.
> 
> My thought here is to try another video card.  
> 
> Ray
> 
> BTW - The third install problem was a 486 and there is no kernel tuned
for
> that processor on the bdi disk.