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>