Dear OS laptop folk, I am would prefer to install OS 2008-05 on a Dell Inspiron 2650 laptop that I inherited.
Unfortunately the display on the laptop is so dim that it cannot be used. I have the laptop connected with an external monitor. The initial boot from an OS 2008-05 CD displays the grub boot screen and the If either standard or text mode install is chosen the monitor displays a load screen followed by a character based display listing the kernel banner, and copyright information with a blinking underscore on the fourth line. I assume the installer starts using the laptop display at that point. I tried booting a DP2 CD with the same result. I also tried an Ubuntu 7.10 and received similar results so I assume the alternate display install issue spans platforms. Any suggestion on how I can get the OS install to proceed? Thanks, Jordan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/laptop-discuss/attachments/20080704/dbc3c601/attachment.html>
