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Re: Trouble installing SL6 on Dell 7910
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Pat Riehecky <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 11 Apr 2017 09:48:28 -0500
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The 6.9 release candidate should be published soon.  That may be worth 
testing on this hardware.

Pat

On 04/11/2017 08:33 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote:
> try booting with acpi=off and update bios to latest first.
>
> also try with ubuntu live to test, if hardware works with linux :)
>
> --
> Eero
>
> 2017-04-11 16:30 GMT+03:00 Dan McDaniel 
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> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>:
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>     We just got a Dell Precision R7910. The net install CD hangs at
>     "detecting hardware." I can boot the LiveCD, but not the install CD.
>     I've tried both 6.7 and 6.8.
>
>     Has anyone run into this? Any work-arounds?
>
>     -- 
>     Dan McDaniel
>
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