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[Philipp Blanke <philipp.blanke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Vladimir,

this list is for discussing problems particular to the hardware of the
Vaio Z series. Your problem is not one of those, but a problem with
installing RHEL. Please ask your question in one of the forums dedicated
to this, e.g. http://rhelforum.com/

Good luck,
Philipp

On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 04:11 -1200, В.Лакеев wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> At the stage of installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3
> on my laptop SONY Vaio VGN-Z17GN I've faced the following problem...
> There is no driver for the NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS on the installation disk.
> According to the manual on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation
> it is possible to mount the driver at the stage of installing from the USB pen drive.
> So, I've uploaded the driver NVIDIA-Linux-x86-195.36.31-pkg1.run to my pen drive.
> Using linux dd command I started installation from the USB pen drive with
> the additional drivers, BUT it does NOT switch to the graphics mode during
> the installation. Maybe I am either using the wrong format of the driver or
> my USB pen drive is not formatted correctly?
> Could you please send me the driver of the correct format and brief instructions
> on the installing it at the stage of installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux from the USB pen drive?
> 
> Best Regards,
> Vladimir
> 
> 

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