Fedora boots from USB, but can't install

[arhaeg]

I was able to run Fedora from USB and it’s fully usable.
However, after clicking the install medium, a system password box shows up for a fraction of a second, then vanishes. After that, a white Anaconda window opens up, and closes after a few seconds.
Nothing happens, system cannot be installed.

h310m pro vdh plus
intel core i3-8100
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760

[pg-tips (P G)]

It sounds like this issue when using the installer on older Nvidia cards (the user in the thread had a GTX 730 card):

KDE liveinst crash

Actually, your issue looks similar to this Bugzilla ticket (on the MATE spin) - One workaround would be to force the use of Firefox rather than Slitherer to render the Anaconda web UI. In a terminal in the live environment, sudoedit /usr/libexec/anaconda/webui-desktop In that file, there should be a line that sets a variable called DEFAULT_BROWSER_CMD. Change that line to… DEFAULT_BROWSER_CMD=firefox …then save the file and try liveinst again. (Source for this suggestion.)

According to the Bugzilla ticket, a fix was released in January.

So I would suggest using a respin ISO (i.e. installer built with up-to-date packages) rather than the original ISO from October.

From this page you can get the F43 KDE ISO as built on 16th March, and hopefully that will work on your hardware.

[arhaeg]

It did not work, unfortunately

[pg-tips (P G)]

Hmm, sorry about that

A couple of other things you could try:

1. The “Everything ISO”, i.e. the netinstaller. This won’t give you the live KDE environment, but you already tried that out and found that it worked
   The netinstaller installs what you ask it to by pulling the latest packages over the network. In your case, select “KDE Plasma Workspaces” on the software selection screen, and you’ll get a Fedora KDE system with all the latest updates.

2. The Fedora 42 KDE live ISO (from the Fedora archive downloads). That used a different UI technology in the installer, so it won’t suffer from the issue you’ve had on Fedora 43.
   After installing, you can then upgrade to Fedora 43.

[isaac0clarke (Isaac Clarke)]

@arhaeg

intel core i3-8100

Here’s an easier solution:

That I3 has integrated graphics.

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Unless your PC is welded shut you could remove the GTX 760, install Fedora 43, and then put the GPU back in.

If you are asking, yes. Nouveau will be enough to even run Wayland and KDE.

Legacy Nvidia GPU and Wayland support: tl;dr reference page

As of today, in this late update, NVK at least works with my GT 710 (1gb GDDR5) model. I couldn’t test much because I lack the time and health tho. Also Brave Browser seems to half-begin to load graphics, before just giving up and leaving a featurless dark-grey filling in the page (the burger menu is at 25% transparency and then doesn’t allow interractions). Here’s images. [Schermata_20260325_224907] The performance is a smooth 70, with only Spectacle “disturbing” it. [Schermata_20260325_…

NVK — The Mesa 3D Graphics Library latest documentation

[gnwiii (George N. White III)]

@arhaeg

Fedora from USB and it’s fully usable.[…] system cannot be installed.

Linux upgrades often fail on older hardware as developers can’t test the ever increasing variety of old hardware. I make a point of testing my oldest system (NVIDIA GK107M [GeForce GT 755M Mac Edition] ) during the test period and it has been working well with pre-release F44.

Have you checked for firmware updates from the system vendor? My Mac has been updated to the last MacOS version supported by Apple, which included firmware updates.

There many workaround (already suggested by others). Since the respin installer fails you may want to collect details for a bug report so future installers will support your hardware.

[arhaeg]

It’s solved now, setting basic graphics mode in the grub did the job for the installation process.

[gnwiii (George N. White III)]

Which installer did you use?