[CentOS] centos 7 will not install :(

[jd1008]

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.
>