[CentOS] Centos 5.4 with Rage

Mon Nov 9 19:33:35 UTC 2009
nate <centos at linuxpowered.net>

Steve Campbell wrote:
> I'm trying to install a newly downloaded Centos 5.4 on an older Dell
> PowerEdge 300. Unfortunately, it came with one of those ATI Rage 2.0
> video cards. The install screens show fine, and the initial screen does
> fine, but once it starts the "firstboot" section, where I'm supposed to
> select the firewall and such, I get two thirds of the top of the screen
> and a repeat of the top third on the bottom. Hence I don't get the
> bottom third where all of the selection buttons are.
>
> Anybody have a clue how to get around this?

You mean R300 ? Try installing using a serial console.

nate