I did see your post. So, even though the sha256sum was perfect on the iso file and on the DVD, it failed to install. I then used a usb flash drive and booted the flash drive to do the install. It also failed. The screen image I took with my camera can be viewed at https://www.sendspace.com/file/4828ej The questions I have are: why VNC ??? VNC is a horribly insecure protocol. Why would I want someone from outside viewing my installation? Why is the X server looking for display :1 ?? I only have one display screen on the laptop, so the display is :0 This is a horribly broken ISO spin. On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 6:19 PM, Francis Gerund <ranrund at gmail.com> wrote:> See my second reply to your earlier message. > > > > On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 7:47 PM, JD <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote: > > > Please ... any info on how > > to proceed??? > > > > After I made sure it had the correct sha256sum, > > and after I burned it to DVD, and and dd'd the DVD > > back to a temp file and again checked the sha256sum > > of the temp file, all was OK. Same sha256sum. > > > > So, I rebooted the machine and it booted up from > > the DVD. > > I got a message that it was not using VNC, > > Then after that immediately an error came out > > saying something about xbi...something not working. > > Machine did not proceed any further. > > I rebooted agian and agian, same error. > > > > The machine is a Dell Latitude E6500, Dual Core 2.8GHz, > > 8GB RAM, 1TB HD. > > > > Any info on this? > > > > On my phone, I have an image of the screen when the error > > is belched out. > > I have to yet be able to extract it out of the phone. > > Since I have no OS to run on my machine, I am using > > the live Knoppix, which has no sense to mount the storage > > of the android phone; so the I am unable to attach it, > > nor a way to upload it to a free upload site. > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS at centos.org > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >
On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 09:16:07AM -0700, JD wrote:> I did see your post. > > > So, even though the sha256sum was perfect on the iso file and on the DVD, > it failed to install. > I then used a usb flash drive and booted the flash drive to do the install. > It also failed. > The screen image I took with my camera can be viewed at > https://www.sendspace.com/file/4828ej > > The questions I have are: > why VNC ??? VNC is a horribly insecure protocol. > Why would I want someone from outside viewing my installation? > Why is the X server looking for display :1 ?? > I only have one display screen on the laptop, so the display is :0 > > This is a horribly broken ISO spin.I don't recall seeing that you mentioned WHICH iso you downloaded... The reference to VNC looks to me as if it is kind of a last-ditch fallback.> > > On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 6:19 PM, Francis Gerund <ranrund at gmail.com> wrote: > > > See my second reply to your earlier message. > > > > > > > > On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 7:47 PM, JD <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Please ... any info on how > > > to proceed??? > > > > > > After I made sure it had the correct sha256sum, > > > and after I burned it to DVD, and and dd'd the DVD > > > back to a temp file and again checked the sha256sum > > > of the temp file, all was OK. Same sha256sum. > > > > > > So, I rebooted the machine and it booted up from > > > the DVD. > > > I got a message that it was not using VNC, > > > Then after that immediately an error came out > > > saying something about xbi...something not working. > > > Machine did not proceed any further. > > > I rebooted agian and agian, same error. > > > > > > The machine is a Dell Latitude E6500, Dual Core 2.8GHz, > > > 8GB RAM, 1TB HD. > > > > > > Any info on this? > > > > > > On my phone, I have an image of the screen when the error > > > is belched out. > > > I have to yet be able to extract it out of the phone. > > > Since I have no OS to run on my machine, I am using > > > the live Knoppix, which has no sense to mount the storage > > > of the android phone; so the I am unable to attach it, > > > nor a way to upload it to a free upload site. > > > _______________________________________________ > > > CentOS mailing list > > > CentOS at centos.org > > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS at centos.org > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. ------------------------------- Romans 5:8 (niv) ------------------------------
On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 09:16:07AM -0700, JD wrote:> The screen image I took with my camera can be viewed at > https://www.sendspace.com/file/4828ej > > The questions I have are: > why VNC ??? VNC is a horribly insecure protocol. > Why would I want someone from outside viewing my installation? > Why is the X server looking for display :1 ?? > I only have one display screen on the laptop, so the display is :0 > > This is a horribly broken ISO spin.Looked at your image. It appears the graphical installation failed to start. Did you read the text? Did you try the suggestion? I'll retype it here: * if the graphical installation fails to start, try again with the inst.text bootoption to start text installation I suspect that for whatever reason, the graphical installer is failing on your laptop, probably because it doesn't support your video card. Try the text-based installer. Sadly, laptops are so varied its quite often that the video hardware simply isn't supported during install, and needs a 3rd-party driver to even work. Don't get too excited about the VNC suggestion. Anaconda (the software performing the install) has the option to use VNC for a graphical install if you are installing a headless server. You're just seeing anaconda log a comment that it wouldn't be available since you didn't configure networking in the anaconda boot options. So it's not even trying it. You're just seeing a verbose log entry. -- Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>
I have not been able to enter the edit screen to edit the boot options and add inst.txt On 06/09/2015 10:55 AM, Jonathan Billings wrote:> On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 09:16:07AM -0700, JD wrote: >> The screen image I took with my camera can be viewed at >> https://www.sendspace.com/file/4828ej >> >> The questions I have are: >> why VNC ??? VNC is a horribly insecure protocol. >> Why would I want someone from outside viewing my installation? >> Why is the X server looking for display :1 ?? >> I only have one display screen on the laptop, so the display is :0 >> >> This is a horribly broken ISO spin. > Looked at your image. > > It appears the graphical installation failed to start. Did you read > the text? Did you try the suggestion? I'll retype it here: > > * if the graphical installation fails to start, try again with the > inst.text bootoption to start text installation > > I suspect that for whatever reason, the graphical installer is failing > on your laptop, probably because it doesn't support your video card. > Try the text-based installer. Sadly, laptops are so varied its quite > often that the video hardware simply isn't supported during install, > and needs a 3rd-party driver to even work. > > Don't get too excited about the VNC suggestion. Anaconda (the > software performing the install) has the option to use VNC for a > graphical install if you are installing a headless server. You're > just seeing anaconda log a comment that it wouldn't be available since > you didn't configure networking in the anaconda boot options. So it's > not even trying it. You're just seeing a verbose log entry. >