Sorry, forgot to say it's a pentium Xeon 550Mhz -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Fabian Arrotin Sent: quarta-feira, 1 de Novembro de 2006 14:45 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] unable to start installing On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 12:16 +0000, Daniel Teixeira wrote: > Hi. > I'm trying to install CentOs 4.3 on a "old" server. Cd's are ok, as i > am able to use them in another computers. > > What happens is that initial text screen shows up (asking if i want to > install in text or grpahics mode), but either way all that happens is > that i get a cursor blinking on the top left corner for a long period > of time. > > anything i can try? What does 'old server' mean for you ? If it's an pentium 1st generation you should go the i586 way. If it's a more recent processor, the normal install should work. What i've already had is that i had to specify the 'nofb' paramater because the vga card didn't support it ... > -- Fabian Arrotin <fabian.arrotin at arrfab.net>