i tried 2 things. at the prompt,


1) i typed setup and reconfigured the X configuration. but no matter what permutations of options i choose, it just prompted errro before i had to exited.

2) i did a more /etc/hosts and get the line below
127.0.0.1 basis localhost.localdomain onemorewordbutforget

then i issue the below with the hostname basis and localhost.localdomain

DISPLAY= your hostname:0
export DISPLAY

after which i mounted the cdrom, run ./runInstaller but still failed

the error message is ErrorISPLAY not set...


i am running on linux 7.2. my video card is working and is from S3