Using the Text Mode Installer
Some computers are not capable of running the standard Fedora Core 4 installer that uses graphics and your mouse. When this is true, one of two things happens:
The Fedora Core 4 installer detects that your computer is not compatible with its graphics mode, and the text mode installer starts instead, automatically.
Your computer crashes, displays the installer screens incorrectly, or otherwise prevents you through abnormal circumstances from completing the install process as it is shown in Chapter 2.
If the latter is true in your case, you need to force the text mode installer to start preemptively so that the graphical installer is never started. To do this, boot from your Fedora Core 4 install media and enter the ...
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