This text is, of course, provided without any guarantee. What I describe here worked fine on my machine. Use it at your own risk ;-)

I installed RH 6.2 on the Acer notebook from CD. It booted up just fine from the CD and entered the first installation prompt. At this prompt you can (as I assume you already know) choose between different installation options. The ones who are interesting here are the regular mode(just hit enter) and the text-mode(type 'text' and hit enter). You could perhabs go with expert-mode but I bumped into the same problems there as in the regular mode.

First I tried just hitting enter to see how far I would get before starting all over again. The first problem was the X configuration part. As soon as the installer tried to start X my machine just froze. I tried it multiple times with the same result; having to power-boot and start all over. Since the standard installer works in X you don't get very far without it. Tried it with expert mode as well but without result, crash on X-startup.

Now let's try it in text-mode. Here you will be asked for the same stuff but not in the GUI-environment. Just go along and create you partitions etc, won't tell you about that here :). When it's time to configure X choose the first SVGA and then enter 50-60 in the vertical sync rate. I wen't for the 3-button standard(was preselected) mouse with 3b-emulation. I then chose the KDE workstation option. Now.. problems again, when it tries to start X, same thing as before, crash. BUT, now you have at least got the system installed (as opposed to the all-gui-options above). Reboot and login from the console. You'll now be able work around in your system and test stuff like networking etc, but don't start X just yet.

I got my networking up and from my second computer(which was connected to the net..) I got this XF86Config-file that I found on a webpage somewhere. Just replace your current config file with it. Now, for the big moment: startx. For me that did it. I got KDE started and from there everything just worked. The touchpad worked as well, but as you can expect not the vert-scrolls...

I did not have xdm enabled at that time (so I had to startx at boot). Just change the line in /etc/inittab that says id:3:initdefault: to id:5:initdefault:

My keyboard worked fine except for some strange things, my 'y' and 'z' changed places and the '+'-key and '^' behaved weird. Nothing that can't be fixed with some mapping. For those interested I can say that the Swedish keyboard-settings worked from start except the 'ö' that was exchanged with a 'û'(if you can't see those, you probably don't care anyway).

I had to remap parts of the keyboard. Here's the Xmodmap I use.

Drivers for the Lucent modem can be found at www.linmodems.org . Install the driver and then run for example "wvdialconf create" to find the modem and then just do something like ln -s /yourdevice /dev/modem and netcfg will do PPP for you easily.
Since Linux doesn't come with ssh you'll want to set up that as well. Get OpenSSH from the OpenBSD-team to avoid export-controls. It will compile on RH without problems.

Finally I wan't to say that IT IS worth the little effort to get the stuff set up. Dont't look at that Win98 that comes preinstalled. This machine rocks and doesn't deserve to be running less than Unix. Suppose you can get *BSD running as well. At least NetBSD that will run on your coffemachine if you want :)

May the force be with you!
 
 

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