I borrowed a USB DVD to do the install of CentOS 5.3 on the Acer One. Unfortunately I don't know anything about livecd images. On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net> wrote: > I currently have my Acer Aspire One netbook set up with Fedora 11. I > would like to change it over to Centos 5.4 if I can. > > I downloaded the Centos 5.4 i386 livecd image and made a bootable USB > flash drive out of it. Unfortunately, when I boot off of that flash > drive, Grub (I guess) immediately turns the screen entirely white. If I > hit a key I can faintly see the outline of "Press tab to change options" > or words to that effect. (It's very faint and hard to read against the > white background.) That bit of text rapidly scrolls off of the top of > the screen, so I assume that the rest of the boot-up messages are being > printed. > > Hitting Ctrl-Alt-anyFkey does nothing for a while, then every keystroke > beeps. I can't get to a text terminal and I never see anything other > than a completely white screen. > > Am I doing something wrong? Fedora 11 works fine on this machine, and I > installed that from a livecd. > > -- > MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Enjoy global warming while it lasts.