Problems installing Fedora 3 on my laptop

[albester 0]

I wanted to try installing Fedora 3 on my laptop, so I downloaded the DVD.

 

I have a compaq armada m300 with 196 mb ram and p3 600 cpu. Not a hell of a powerfull pc, but i wanted to try even so.

 

It boots fine from the dvd, and i get the usual hit enter to start the graphical installer, or write linux text to install using text mode..

 

first i try just to hit enter...

then this happens

 

It probes for hardware, then the whole screen turns white, gradually... taking lets say 5 sec.. when it had become white, it gradually turns black.. and the pc seems to hang.

 

First i thought it might be X that had some buggy drivers loading during the installer load. but the same thing happens when I try linux text as well.

 

any idea what causes this?

 

regards

NH

[adamvjackson 0]

Have you either verified the media thru MD5 hash on the DVD iso or running linux media check at the boot prompt?

[albester 0]

Yes, it works fine. The same thing happened with Fedora 2 when I tried that when it was released. So I gave it up

[clutch 1]

Is there an option to disable ACPI during boot (like "noacpi")? I know that would seem lame for a laptop, but if it doesn't support ACPI properly then you might get away with simple APM.

[souldreamer 0]

I had the same problem with FC3 and a similar one with MDK 10.1. Do like clutch said.

 

Boot like this: "linux noapic" (without quotes)

[albester 0]

I got it working now. Used linux nofb, and it worked like a dream.