Not sure if i've stumbled across a bug or whether i intentionally have no configuration options?
Posted Nov 6, 2018, 8:31 AM UTC
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You can use the network installer in the future and it will allow you to set a user/password during the install like before.
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The screenshot actually shows that the installer is busy creating an ext4 filesystem on /dev/sdb4 (not sure why it's doing that but at least that explains why there are no options available)
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If this is Workstation installer, then it is normal and the initial setup in done at the first boot.
Which I can't access because NVIDIA... Guess I'll need to Chroot in to set a root password and get things going manually. Thanks :)
Doesn't nouveau work for you?
Unfortunately no. I'm not sure whether it's because i'm running a GTX970, i have secure boot and no ability to disable it, or some other issue, but installing any distro except ubuntu has generally been a complete nightmare.
I just got up and running. This is what i did:
boot from USB drive, edit grub config to remove quiet, add nomodeset=0
switch to different tty, switch to runlevel 3, manually install rpmfusion
yum install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia nvidia-xconfig
run nvidia-xconfig
switch to runlevel 5, which throws me into gnome and i can run the installer. Normally i can just install fedora, boot into my new operating system and repeat the above steps, but since i cant create a user or set a root password during install, i had to do some extra stuff.
After installing, but before exiting the livecd, open terminal and chroot into the new system. it was already mounted and ready to go (but the folder name eludes me. anyone following this, do a df -ah and you should be able to see it).
sudo passwd root, sudo adduser blah, sudo passwd blah
exit out of the chroot and reboot.
perform steps 1-5 on the new install.
It's always painful, but once it's done i never have to think about it again (until the next reinstall).