Joseph Creek helped me resolve this one. I was trying install by booting the installation from the CD, but when I created installation floppies and booted from the floppies into VESA mode, the installation went fine.
Thanks your the suggestions anyway! Tom ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ahrenstorff, Rodd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Tom Smith'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 2:03 PM Subject: RE: [rl-users] Installation Problem > Sounds like a defective install disk. Do you have another copy? Use the > checksum file to verify integrity. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2002 9:38 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [rl-users] Installation Problem > > > I ran into the following problem while trying to install Redmond Linux. I > ran the standard installation, and the computer locked up just after it did > the hardware scan and just before the Welcome screen. the monitor went > entire blank and there was no harddrive or CD-ROM activity at all. > > I re-tried the installation using the Safe-Mode install, and it got to the > Welcome creen okay, but then locked up. I could not use the mouse and > attempted to the keyboard (USB) and there was no response whatsoever. > > Any suggestions? > > Tom > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > - > -- > rl-users list. To leave, send "unsubscribe" without quotes in body of > message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/rl-users@chicago.redmondlinux.org/ _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com - -- rl-users list. To leave, send "unsubscribe" without quotes in body of message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/rl-users@chicago.redmondlinux.org/
