On Sat, 4 Oct 2008, gary artim wrote:
On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Timothy Murphy
<gayleard(a)eircom.net> wrote:
> James Kosin wrote:
>
>> Timothy Murphy wrote:
>>>>> I tried installing F-10 from the hard disk
>>>>> on my Thinkpad T43
>>>>> but came up against two major impediments:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. The cursor is not visible.
>>>>> Occasionally something lights up, to show where the cursor is
>>>>> (eg when specifying one's location),
>>>>> but on other occasions it does not seem to be active at all
>>>>> (eg when nominating partitions for / , etc).
>>>>>
>>>>> 2. The display extends below the bottom of my screen,
>>>>> and there seems to be no way of moving to the bottom,
>>>>> where the "Continue" button is hidden.
>>>>> I can move on by pressing TAB several times
>>>>> and guessing where I have got to.
>>>>> Quite often I hit the Back button by mistake,
>>>>> which is rather annoying.
>>>
>> Ok, now I got you. You mean the install CD is choosing the wrong
>> resolution; so, you can't install FC-10.
>> Anyone know if "Do they still provide the text-only install option on
>> FC-10?"
i ran into precisely the same problem -- the main F10 dialog is
located far too low on the display, with the lower portion with the
relevant buttons not visible. choosing a "text" display was a
workaround, but it's still somewhat inconvenient.
rday
p.s. f10 (x86_64) on gateway MX7120 laptop.
p.p.s. should this stuff not be discussed on the fedora-test-list?
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