I have not been able to enter the edit screen to edit the boot options and add inst.txt On 06/09/2015 10:55 AM, Jonathan Billings wrote: > 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. >