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I have installed Fedora on VMWare and I was so impressed that I decided to take the plunge and put it on it's own partition on my PC. However - Fedora didn't install...... ;( My setup is Asus P4C800 (not the deluxe models) P4 3ghz ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 1 x 15GB ATA IDE drive (which was entirely given over to Fedora) (setup as the first disk) 1 x 160GB SATA IDE with XP Pro on it. 1GB mem if that makes any difference..... When I tried to install Fedora in graphical mode it went through the initial post messages then almost immediately froze with a mouse cursor stuck in the middle of a pure white screen when it had switched to X. OK I thought - go to text mode - which I did. This seemed to go alot better and installed OK. However when it tries to boot it sticks on "Enabling Swap Space" but the PC has not hung as the numlock light is togglable and there is some disk activity periodically - but after 15 mins of waiting for it to get past this point I have given up..... Any ideas? Nick

skaczor- I did all of this as you can see in my last post - and am very happy with it. I am somewhat disappointed with the speed of OpenGL myself. I have tried to play Unreal Tournament 2003 on it and whilst it is just about playable it is not a patch on running it on Windows. If you get anywhere optimising the 9800 ati drivers on Fedora or ATI get back to you on sorting the OpenGL issues please let me know.... Many thanks Nick Quote: I installed Fedora Core 1 yesterday with a Radeon 9800 and had a similar issue. The folks in Red Hat forgot that if you choose a text installation it is most likely because you don't have a compatible graphic card. If you reboot your system, it will restart in graphical mode (init 5) by default. To solve the issue, I booted in rescue mode, mounted the file system (/mnt/sysimage) and changed etc/inittab to use level 3 instead of 5 (you may want to do that before rebooting after the installation). Next, I installed the driver from ati, ran the fglxconfig and X is running just fine. I still have an issue with OpenGL support, which runs in software rendering mode. I contacted ATI about that issue though. Good luck.

Well last night was interesting.... I tried everything from removing memory to disconnecting the SATA drive. You are correct that it was nothing to do with the memory - tho I am grateful to Admiral for his suggestions. In desperation I went onto Fedora's IRC channel and had a chat with the guys in there. Someone called Goofball took pity on me and suggested that I do the following... 1) Boot with the Fedora disk and select "Linux Rescue" 2) Edit the /etc/inittab and change the default run level to 3 instead of 5 (which is obviously X) 3) Install the 3.2.8 ATI drivers with the force option 4) Bobs your uncle I am happy to report that this sorted it. The places where Fedora was sticking were actually the last messages before it was trying to start X. All I need to do now is get the network and audio sorted.... and your right about having to use the BIOS to do the dual boot - Linux does not seem to able to write to the boot record of the SATA drive even tho it can read the partition table/use the disk as a second drive. Many thanks for your suggestions/help. Regards Nick

Thanks for this - but I may have trouble removing 512MB as they have to be installed in matched pairs I think - but I will RTFM on the motherboard. Also - I assume that the Xfree86 version of the latest Fedora Core 1 is 4.3.0 yes? Many thanks Nick