Comment 66 for bug 38442

18 monthes later, I strongly agree with BusDriver. I'm one out of the 1% that spent their time and keep on trying, so I describe my issue here with 8.04 installation. It seems to be somewhat related: I even couldn't get the live setup GUI, only a dark screen with an esoteric message *not to be read by a newbie* after Linux was loaded into the RAM. My hardware was PIII/550MHz 768MB (i440BX) and.... on board S3Virge video with 4MB (IBM PC 300 GL) to supply video to a flat 19" Belinea 101920 (800*600 to 1024*1280 capable). I can't know if the video chip is PCI or AGP because changing the setting in the BIOS makes no difference: both doesn't work with Ubuntu, both works with XP or Debian Etch 4.0.3.
At least a minimum HW requirements list should be available in the first text mode steps, and, maybe, a "Stop! Install MS-DOS instead - your hardware is no more hi-end enough to continue" message ;-)