FC4 installation hangs

[Osvaldo]

Hi again,

Corrections:

On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 11:10:15AM +0200, Osvaldo La Rosa wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm on an old Pentium 200MMX with an old hardware braille dispaly 
> Tieman Octobraille who reads via its slotcard from a 16-bit old 
> Trident SVGA8900C video card.
> 
> I burned yesterday the 4 fedora Core 4 CDs + the Rescue one,
> 
> and I'm trying to boot as follow:
> 
> as soon as I hear the CD being booted I enter:
>  linux text no-scroll video=vga16:off askmethod speakup_synth=dtlk <ENTER>
> 

I did tried now with:
 linux nofb no-scroll text speakup°synth=dtlk <ENTER>

(with or without askmethod),

and WAOW! this seem to boot. My Octobraille is OK.

But I encountered 2 problems:
 a) if I'd like to install from http or ftp, it asks me for the server etc;
this is really bad since I install Debians without having to enter such info
by hand :(
Isn't there a menu with a list of local ftp / http servers just like under
Debian?
What should I enter for example (web server and dir)?
 b) I do then a (normal) CD inst, and when running the CD test it results in
a FAIL message; what am I missing? I simply downloaded the 
FC4-i386-disc1(to4).iso using axel; was it better with wget?
Or does  cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=x,y,z FC.iso is not good enough?

BTW I wasn't able to check md5sum since there is only a sha1sum file on the
download (here belnet.be) server.

Thanx for further tips/help.

Aldo.