general install question

[chuck lawrence]

greetings,

this happens to me pretty regularly, and I don't really understand the 
process needed to resolve...

a new pc arrives, with brand new components.  the NIC and/or video card 
are especially new and fancy.

my redhat install media doesn't know what to do about one or the other 
(or both), and so the e-z, gui-driven installation either fails to start 
(new video - no X), or can't reach my various network services, e.g. 
NFS, NIS, etc (new NIC - no networking).

so far, I've either swapped components for known hardware, or waited. 
eventually rh catches up and next month's release may work with last 
month's hardware.

presumably, the right thing to do is do a text-based load and then 
manually locate and install drivers, assuming they exist.  is that 
correct?  could someone post examples?

adv<thanks>ance

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