Did I just waste 5 cd-rs...???

[Darien]

Well, I downloaded Red Hat Linux 8 and burned all 5 ISOs.

When I try to install it, eventually I just get a blank screen!

Hitting alt+ctr+backspace leads me back to the screen (in text mode) and it says that something was shut down.

wtf?!

help!

 

[n0cmonkey]

Did the md5sums match up? Have you tried in text mode? At what point did the install stop? When you hit ctrl-alt-backspace, what error did youg et exactly? Hardware specs?

 

[Darien]

right after it detected my video card and monitor.

It didn't get the video detected correctly (said geforce2 and not geforce2 ultra)
it couldn't detect what monitor I had (viewsonic vg151).

<--- knows little about linux. text mode scares me

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Darien
right after it detected my video card and monitor.

It didn't get the video detected correctly (said geforce2 and not geforce2 ultra)
it couldn't detect what monitor I had (viewsonic vg151).

<--- knows little about linux. text mode scares me

Go with text mode until you get the nVidia drivers installed.

 

[Darien]

i dunno if it's the nvidia drivers that are doing it.

suse 8.1 detected my geforce2 ultra correctly, but not my monitor.
result: garbled screen.
suse 8.0 detected my video card as a geforce2 and couldn't detect what kind of monitor i had
result: garbled screen
mandrake 8 detected my video card as a geforce2 and couldn't detect what kind of monitor i had
result: garbled screen

I think it's the monitor that's doing it after trying to install the live-eval of suse 8.1

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Darien
i dunno if it's the nvidia drivers that are doing it.

suse 8.1 detected my geforce2 ultra correctly, but not my monitor.
result: garbled screen.
suse 8.0 detected my video card as a geforce2 and couldn't detect what kind of monitor i had
result: garbled screen
mandrake 8 detected my video card as a geforce2 and couldn't detect what kind of monitor i had
result: garbled screen

I think it's the monitor that's doing it after trying to install the live-eval of suse 8.1

Setup your vsync and horizontal sync correctly.

 

[Darien]

I did that with suse 8.1 (didn't try mandrake or the other version of suse i had -- this one correctly detected my video )

it didn't work

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Darien
I did that with suse 8.1 (didn't try mandrake or the other version of suse i had -- this one correctly detected my video )

it didn't work

Then go into text mode, get the system installed, configure X through one of the config programs or manually and go from there. That way you can look at the logs to see what problems you were having and figure out how to correct them.