If you booted using PCMCIA boot disks and want to install via FTP (or
NFS or HTTP), but do not see these installation options, you may have
a problem with your network card.
If the network card is not initialized during the boot process, the
Red Hat Linux installation program will not enable you to configure your
system for networking, either during or after the installation itself.
Check the hardware compatibility list (http://hardware.redhat.com) to see if
your network card is compatible and/or supported. If your card is not listed, it
may not be compatible with Red Hat Linux.
If the Mouse Not Detected screen (see Figure D-1) appears, then the installation
program was not able to identify your mouse correctly.
You can choose to continue with the GUI installation or use the text
mode installation, which does not require using a mouse. If you choose
to continue with the GUI installation, you will need to provide the
installation program with your mouse configuration information (see
Figure 3-3).
For an overview of text mode installation instructions, please refer
to Chapter 4.
The Red Hat Linux installation program uses frame buffers by
default. However, there are some video cards that will not work with
this setting. The end result will be a problem booting into the
graphical installation program.
The installation program will first try to run in frame buffer mode. If
that fails, it will try to run in a lower resolution mode. If that still
fails, the installation program will run in text mode.
Video cards that will not run at 800 x 600 resolution should type
lowres at the boot: prompt to run the
installation program in 640 x 480 resolution.
If this still does not work, you can run the installation program
without frame buffers by typing nofb at the
boot: prompt.
