the installation will fail if you have a nvidia card...

you can choose text mode but text mode is limited, for example, text mode won't give you the option to encrypt your filesystem

another option to still get the graphical installer is to select the first install option in the menu and NOT press enter!

press the 'tab' button instead and type:
" vesa"

now you can press enter and use the graphical intaller in vesa mode.

i have a nvidia 6600gt and i was able to hit enter and install through the normal vga installer. I had to get the beta drivers to get 1680x1050 reso after the install though. the beta drivers, version 173.08, dont work with glx but compiz is working. so pretty desktop but no games yet. of course fc9 only came out 6 days ago, so i bet nvidia will get new drivers out quick for the new X.org. they said they are just waiting for the ABI to be finalized.

Hi,

I have installed fedora 9 on a duel boot with vista and its worked ok but....

I have 3seconds to hit enter to chose witch OS to use and i cant see fedora my screen just goes black (i think i need them drivers) so could someone give me a link for them please?

Im running a:
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
AMD Athlon 64X2 Duel Core
64-bit OS (vista home premium)
Service Pack 1

Also do you guys know how i change the duel boot time from 3 seconds up to 10? (to chose witch OS i boot on)

Thanks in advance for help!
Nathaniel

hello
i have installed fedora 9 and after installation i see the login screen.
but i can't login with root and i have no other user.
What should i do??

regards,
bernhard

from grub edit using"e" kernel line & at the end of line write "1", press enter, press "b" to boot & you will have a prompt where you can give command "passwd root" change your root password & also create one user using "useradd user" & "passwd user" & then press "ctrl d" to boot in default run level.
Also check /etc/ssh/sshd_config --> rootlogin parameter yes / no

Hope it will solve your prob.

reinstall and make the root password very simple.

Hi,

I just got fedora 9 today in post and i cant get the installation to work :(

The install starts ok but after the "test" bit when its ment to goto "Anaconda (the Fedora installer)" my screen just goes black :(

I have a nvidia 8600 so how do i get fedora to install on a dual boot with vista (i have vista installed and want to add fedora to learn linux)

Please please someone help me as im realy stuck on this and i know nothing about linux yet as this is my first install of it cuz i want to learn it all :)

Thanks,
Nath

How do i login using ROOT ?
Please dont tell me the su --login stuff.
I just need to use the computer as ROOT and no other user.

You must enable the "Login as root" option from the Login Window tool. Go to the 'Security' tab and click on the "Allow local system administrator login" option.

im new to fedora.i want to know, how cani unlock my codec plug-in.thx

I have tested this, I tested this with a coputer using NVIDIA GeForce XF 5200. No problems happened!

I hv installed i386 (x86_64 did not boot!!!!) on HP Pavilion tx2110ca. My wireless adapter(Broadcom 4321AG) and Sound adapter(Realtek HD Audio) was not detected. How can I use them in Core 9 environment??Any suggessition would be appreciated.
abmsislam@gmail.com

Same as the above poster i have a Compaq6910p Laptop dual booting with windows and my Wireless adapter was not detected. Need help with that urgently as i have to keep going back to windows whenever a wired connection is not available:(

i have installed fedora.
after first booting coomand prompt appears. it says local host loading.
desktop doesnot appears. waht should i do

i've istalled fedore 9 but it remove everythings.

if i want do install fedora 9 on other partion what should i do?
i want to install fedora beside Vista

Linux Fedora is Awesome , thanks for the installation guide it was really helpfull

I can't upgrade from FC5 by any means. Can't boot from the DVD (maybe because the laptop is too old and doesn't allow booting from a DVD) but can't even see its contents in the current FC5 installation (despite I can properly open it in a Mac). Burnt twice, same failure: the DVD doesn't even mount in FC5.

Then I've tried a netinst CD iso. Also burnt twice, in two different computers, it boots and starts the installation, but at certain point it keeps saying that the "the fedora disk was not found in any of your cdrom drives". It ejects the CD, period.

I think I give up...

great tutorial thanks the visual was well appreciated

As a complete novice to Fedora and still trying to work it all out after being used to Windows i followed the installation instructions laid out here and I must say a huge big thank you as it is concise and the use of screenshots is a huge big help,I know for a fact when i get the hang of the system i will be installing it on my other pcs,many thanks for your help

i have a nvidia 6600gt and i was able to hit enter and install through the normal vga installer. However after the installation was complete and i created my user, the PC hangs. I have ASUS P5GZ-MX motherboard and Intel core 2 duo processor. I am not able to install fedora or any other version of LINUX on my system. i currently have vista installed. please help.

I just built this PC and I have a 8800 GT. I am a long time mac user and have no clue how to get my card working. I did the DVD install, everything went well. I get to the last screen before the desktop and the screen goes black. I don't understand these "yum" commands. I don't even know how to get to install this driver I found on the Nvidia website. Any way you can step by step tell me what to do? Thanks a bunch!!

I have windows vista installed in my HP laptop. I want to use linux (Fedora core 9). I tried installing it. While installing i got a screen showing that the file system table is not readable and do you want to initialize the file system table. It also prompts that if i did it, all data will be lost.

I want to have both windows and linux in my laptop. Will clicking "YES" in the prompt screen remove data present in hard disks and my windows.

Please provide me with a solution as soon as possible.

hi, I have a server with intel q9550 and 8 gb of ddr3 ram. When I'm installing Fedora 9 64 bit with all 8 gb of ram and with only base category it's all goot until I set the username for it and after it's freezing. If I remove 6 gb of ram linux will boot and at the menu where you select the user if you enter the password and try to login it says that it was unable to authentificate.
what can I do? What should I try?

i have installed fedora 9 on my PC on other partion. on 1st partion winXP is is installed. now after full installation of fedora 9 , it work fine and properly login....but when i install dual boot software acronis OS selector on pc it does not scan the fedora ,.. it only showing winXP ... and now i login in XP but cna't login in fedora again....plz suggest me how to configure dual boot mode through XP ....cause i am not able to login in fedora ....

I cannot install fedoraon my pc. I've put it on a dvd. but i don't know what to do now.

I am unable to log in as a normal user. I can log in as the root user but when I enter my password for the normal user, the screen appears to log in but then returns to back to the login dialog.

I have logged in as the root user and changed the password (for the normal user) and even created a new user but trying these at the login screen still won't work.

Any ideas?

Give more details regarding your HDD partitions. It;s very important to have/make a separate partition for Linux instalation. Afterwards, if you wanna see your windows partition within Linux, don't make any changes to your windows partition at the installation time. You will be able to mount the windows partition afterwards by command line after Fedora installation process.

PLZ PLZ HELP!exams on monday so nned to solve this pronlem by tomo...
i have installed fedora 9.installation was perfect...when i switch on my comp..in the grub i select fedora among fedora and winXP.
it starts...staring udev...all tat..
then all of a sudden,,the screen turns black and i get a window on screen saying"input not supported"!!
plz plz help!!!!

My system has 75GB Hard drive and 512MB RAM. In it, XP is already installed and also some data, so that the free space left is 35.2GB. I want to install Fedora 9 just to have an experience of Linux. So i want to allocate only 10GB something for Linux and rest for XP.
1) How do i do it?
2) During partition if i choose "Use free space on the selected drives and create default layout" option, then how much space will i get for Linux and XP.
3) With such RAM, should i go for installing Linux? Will it slow down XP? Can i later delete Linux and remove the partition?

Hi
I am using Vista SP1 as Main OS and I installed Fedora 9 Sulphur beside Vista SP1, but i could get fedora desktop and it says out of range. I am using NVIDIA GEFORCE MCP73 - Mercury Mother Board. Please tell me how do I get fedora 9 desktop

Regards
HIMAKAR PERNA
grgraphics@live.in

Sir,

After installing fedora 9 cannot boot from harddisk. Screen display "GRUB" then hang.
Plese tell a solution to solve these problem.

Regards
Bilal.M.K

I have installed fedora 9,I have four partitions(ntfs), I would like to access these partitions while in linux, I understand there are syntax to do, what are the syntax and where do I run them. Pliz I will appreshet if someone gives me these procedures

i have a problem ???my system configuration is
intel dual core 2.5ghz
asus nvidia 7050/610 chipset
250gb hdd
1gb ram
dvd writer
i installed fedora 9 and didn't get any problem till it reboot.after that while starting load the os,the monitor blank out showing as it is out of range...please help...?????

good thing to post setup faq's like this thank you but when i installed only the 1st screen appeared it said that it can run on oh whatever i just burned that stupid DVD

i have install fedora 10 in 14 gb hadd disc memory after some day upgrade fedora10 to 11 option are happned but my dice space is only 3.5 gb then upgrade is possable or not

i had install fedora 9 and now i want install vlc media player to play video and audio content

i cant install fedora9 on my desktop after skipping media test the anaconda installer begins then im getting error messege Invalid objectpath'/org/free desktop/Hal/devices/storage_model_SAMSUNG_HD160 /' ends with '/' and is not just '/'

please help me i hav 1GB of ram and AMD semprone processor

Fedora 9 is no longer supported by the Fedora community. Please install Fedora 11, you can get it from Softpedia: http://linux.softpedia.com/progDownload/Fedora-Download-41.html

I have installed the fedora 9 according to the above given steps and got successed . so it is very nice service. and everybody should follow these steps who were facing problems during installtion.

I have install fedora 9 in spec pc :
1. mainboard msi pentium 4
2. Memory 256 mb

After finish installation and reboot, my system show
" Enter LUKS passphrase for /dev/sda2:"
pls help me, what I do it?