FC-5. Cannot install in graphical or text modes

[Teilhard Knight]

> On 4/21/06, Teilhard Knight <teilhk at softhome.net> wrote:
>> Hello:
>>
>> I am trying to install FC-5, but X won't start for graphical install. I 
>> then
>> tried text install but I get a blue screen and installation also hangs. I
>> then disabled ACPI (linux acpi=off), and I cannot install either.
>>
>> I have three drivers where to install from and I always get the same 
>> result.
>> Now, I have a Geoforce3 Nvidia card which, browsing here apparently gives
>> problems with the kernel in FC-5. My monitor is a Sony Trinitron 
>> Multiscan
>> G220.
>>
>> Upon checking the installation disk, I got a "pass" (it's OK to install 
>> from
>> this disk), and trying the disk in another computer, the installer works 
>> all
>> right, up to the point of actual installation.
>>
>> Is there anything I could do to enable me to install?
>>
>> Teilhard.
>>
>
> Are you installing x86 or x86_64? If it is x86_64 wait for FC6 or
> later. Perhaps by that time the drivers will have matured and match
> the x86 ones.
>
> If x86 try an NFS or FTP install.

I am trying to install x86. Where can I see how to install by those methods 
you suggest? I confess I have no idea of what an NFS install is, and I just 
know what FTP is, not how to install via FTP.

teilhard.