David L. Johnson writes: >I would be cautious about even using svgalib to fancy-up the >installation. Slackware does this, and has (or had) to have a plain >tty version as a backup for those that had trouble. Quite... >In addition, the fancy installation screen buried error messages, so >you (as a novice) would have no idea when something went wrong. That's just whoever wrote it being an idiot. Capturing the output of a program is trivial. ttfn/rjk