Re: Installer freezes-SOLVED
OK - here's what I did. Oh and BTW, I have /home on a separate partition, in fact on a separate hard disk, so a fresh install doesn't matter to me.
1) Fresh install of 9.10. I did allow the normal updates but maybe you don't need to bother with them at all.
2) Used the online upgrade to 10.4, which ran smoothly to its conclusion. Once this was installed I rebooted into it. It did what it always does - went to a black screen and no activity.
3) I rebooted but opted for the "rescue" image this time, and selected root access with networking.
4) At the root prompt, I typed: sudo Xorg -configure
5) I rebooted and this time KDE worked.
6) Installed the "hardware drivers" (for my ATi HD5770 graphics card)
7) Downloaded the latest Catalyst driver from AMD/ATi (version 10.4) and installed them.
8) Set up my dual headed monitors using amdcccle,
9) Smiled and breathed a hearty sigh of relief!
All the above leads me to conjecture that a virgin install from a 10.4 CD will also work but one would have to do some or all of the steps above. It is also possible that one or two steps above are redundant but I am not going to spend time on that. I want to get everything loaded and running in 10.4. Wheeeeeeeee!
Mikey
OK - here's what I did. Oh and BTW, I have /home on a separate partition, in fact on a separate hard disk, so a fresh install doesn't matter to me.
1) Fresh install of 9.10. I did allow the normal updates but maybe you don't need to bother with them at all.
2) Used the online upgrade to 10.4, which ran smoothly to its conclusion. Once this was installed I rebooted into it. It did what it always does - went to a black screen and no activity.
3) I rebooted but opted for the "rescue" image this time, and selected root access with networking.
4) At the root prompt, I typed: sudo Xorg -configure
5) I rebooted and this time KDE worked.
6) Installed the "hardware drivers" (for my ATi HD5770 graphics card)
7) Downloaded the latest Catalyst driver from AMD/ATi (version 10.4) and installed them.
8) Set up my dual headed monitors using amdcccle,
9) Smiled and breathed a hearty sigh of relief!
All the above leads me to conjecture that a virgin install from a 10.4 CD will also work but one would have to do some or all of the steps above. It is also possible that one or two steps above are redundant but I am not going to spend time on that. I want to get everything loaded and running in 10.4. Wheeeeeeeee!
Mikey
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