Display goes bad, seemingly randomly, during install of FC3

[Thomas Cameron]

>>Sounds like the display isn't set up properly. Have her boot in to run 
>>level 3
>>by appending a 3 to the kernel on the bootup. From level 3 she will be 
>>able to
>>run system-config-display to set up her display.
>>
>>
> Ok thanks.......but isn't that utility a Python/GUI utility which would 
> require X to be running?

You can start the install in text mode and do the whole thing without X. 
Type:

linux text

at the installer start.

Thomas