Fedora Core 4 on Laptops

Getting the Fedora Core installation program to work on a laptop may result in a garbled display. However, by simply adding a few command line boot options, you can avoid this and continue with the installation as normal.

When you boot from the Fedora Core CD or DVD, you are prompted with the following:
  boot:
by adding the option nofb, you should be able to complete the installation procedure.