Hello,
this may be of some use to people trying to do a text install of MythDora. First of all thanks for the great work to all people contributing. I think the Myhtdora additions to the MythTV setup are brilliant.. I would like to cheer about the easy of install as well but it took me some time to get things up and running...

Here is my situation: I have been running a FC4, Myth setup for the past two years or so. I recently bought a new HDD, nice time to upgrade things on the otherwise same hardware. I knew everything worked so I was sure I would be up and running on MD5 rather soon ;-).I won't describe the migration of the existing recordings since I want to focus on the text install thingy here.

Since I have a "legacy" NVIDIA video card (Geforce 4 MX 4000) using the TV-out on my TV I needed to do a text based install: X doesn't work without proper installation. I went through the whole install thing rather smoothly, including indicating I wanted to use the legacy nvidia drivers and anticipated MythTV bliss when prompted for the reboot. I did this but then ended up with text login screen. Rather stumped I tried the whole install again (and again...) thinking I missed something. I even did a media check to make sure the disk was ok, unfortunately, to no avail.
Doing some searching on this site I ended up doing the following:
logging in as mythtv
su
then I tried
#init 5
ending up with a failing X session

then:
#yum install kmod-nvidia-96xx
got some message about conflicts with the installed nvidia packages
then I did:
yum remove kmod-nvidia
and the existing installed nvidia drivers were reported as de-installed
then again:
#yum install kmod-nvidia-96xx
the 96xx nvidia drivers were reported as installed... As well as
kernel - 2.6.25.6-27.fc8.i686
lirc-kmdl-2.6.25.6-27.fc8 - 0.8.4-80_cvs20080528.fc8.i686

now I'm know you're not supposed to upgrade the kernel so I suppose I should have done it using the rpm's on the DVD and doing specific rpm commands, but hey it worked ;-)

and then
(I may have made some changes to the xorg.conf files at this poitn but I'm not sure anymore sorry about that)
# init 5
and lo and behold, the X session started correctly and the mythtv setup of mythdora appeared, allowing me to finish off my config work.

the only thing that's left now is getting tv_grab_nl_py to only grabbing the TV channels that are relevant to me, even though I change the .conf file it happily tries to grab all available 70 something channels from the web site. I'll try to solve that on the relevan tv_grab_forum...

Regards,

Ronald