CentOS - Sep 2008 - non-graphics install or fix xorg.conf?

Trying the to install on the OQO, and hitting up against one problem I 
see a lot in the comments about installing various distros on it.  That 
is its screen size.

So I could install using the text installation except...

What is the command line for text install and askmethod so I can use 
HTTP to access my local repo?  What do I add to 'linux askmethod'?  And 
if I go the text install route, can I do all of my custom disk 
partitioning? I seem to recall from when I fell intotext install on a 
system without enough memory, that I could not work with LVM in text mode.

Or

Can I set the video size in that 'linux askmethod' line?  Here is a 
sample xorg.conf I have found:

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "Silicon Motion, Inc. SM720 Lynx3DM"
        Driver          "vesa"
#        Driver          "siliconmotion" # need to modify the driver 
first before using
        BusID           "PCI:0:6:0"
EndSection


Section "Monitor"
        Identifier      "Generic Monitor"
        Option          "DPMS"
        Modeline "800x480" 40 800 864 928 1088 480 481 484 509 +HSync
EndSection


IF I have to go with a custom kickstart file from diskette (Drive a:), I 
suppose I could put the hardware together for it.  I would need a 
powered USB hub (around here somewhere), my USB diskette drive, along 
with the USB CDrom....

How best to proceed?


Oh, for my custom disk partitioning, besides the ext3 partition for 
/boot, I create a separate swap partition of memory x 2 (=2Gb).  Then 
the LVM partition has two ext3 partitions, one for / around 12Gb, and 
the other for /home as the rest.  The drive is a 60Gb drive, so I might 
make / bigger:


ext3   /boot   100mb
swap              2Gb
LVM               Rest of drive (to 512byte multiple)
    ext3   /          12Gb
    ext3   /home   rest of LVM

Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> How best to proceed?
I assume this computer has a network connection? Put the kickstart
config on a http server.

Though I've long had problems with LVM and kickstart, it often
causes anaconda to crash (going back at least as far as RHEL 3).
Maybe 5.x is better in this regard.

nate

nate wrote:
> Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
>   
>> How best to proceed?
>>     
>
> I assume this computer has a network connection? Put the kickstart
> config on a http server.
>
> Though I've long had problems with LVM and kickstart, it often
> causes anaconda to crash (going back at least as far as RHEL 3).
> Maybe 5.x is better in this regard.
Sounds good. Afterall, I am using the network card with the askmethod to 
select http to get to my local repo install of running through 6 CDs.

But this begs 2 questions:

How to access the kickstart via http (and where to put it, somewhere in 
the /centos/5/os/i386 structure?).

and

What to put into the kickstart to get it to finish in text mode? And how 
to set the xorg.conf size? THis will be a lot of reading up on 
kickstart. Been a couple of years since I did my own kickstart. I did 
figure out how to setup my drive info...