This machine was originally set up as a Red Hat 7.0 box. The following notes were written for Red Hat 7.0. They are probably no longer relevant.
On my first install, I used Disk Druid to assign the mount points, and everything worked fine.
When I re-installed the system to get things exactly the way I wanted them, the install program, anaconda, crashed. It let me define the partitions, select software and do the video configuration. It formatted the hard drive partitions, then it exited with a bunch of error messages.
I searched Red Hat's web page for information, and I found it. The relevant documents are Red Hat Bug Advisory RHBA-2000-084, and Bug Report 18032.
The practical solution is not to assign a mount point for the Windows partition. I wanted Windows 95 mounted at Win95, and I had to set this up later.
Problem solved.
Rover for Red Hat 7.0 did not boot the first time. It announced an interrupt conflict, and it locked up. With Red Hat at least, you are prompted during the boot to hit "I" for an interactive boot. I did so, and I found out that the PCMCIA script was crashing it.
I disabled this by loading /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia into a text editor and changing PCMCIA=yes to PCMCIA=no. I don't have any PCMCIA stuff.
For XFree86 4.0 on Red Hat 7.0, the configuration files are stored in /etc/X11. I used Xconfigurator to set it up.
It was possible to bring up X in 640x480 mode, but the fonts looked awful.
Xconfigurator automatically identified my video card, but I could not find anything on my monitor/display. I was unable to find anything I could type in that would make the X test work. Eventually, I set the 24 bit 800x600 display, and told it not to test X. Then, I edited XF86Config manually.
I found some timing values on a website. After a little hacking around, I found values that worked.
HorizSync 31.5-48.5 VertRefresh 50-70 Mode "800x600" DotClock 34 HTimings 800 840 968 1056 VTimings 600 601 605 628 Flags "+hsync" "+vsync" EndMod
I didn't bother with the fonts. Notes in XF86Config state that the font lines are no longer used. There is a separate font server.