Installing BDI

I'm a newbie who's been lurking for a month or so. I am building a practise
CNC device, using Thorsten Ostermann's (www.nc-step.de) L297/298 stepper
drive, optocoupler and PSU, and have been whirring some old used 5V 1A
steppers with Kcam.

A quick plug for NC-Step. I have little experience with soldering and
electronics, and screwed up a fair bit, and Thorsten displayed impeccable
customer service in helping troubleshoot and solve the mistakes I built in.
He even sent me a free new design Optocoupler replacement set when he
suspected that the old one had issues with weak signals from the MoBo. His
prices are very reasonable and the boards are commercially produced. Highly
recommended.

I downloaded and burnt a BDI CD, and have a question with the installation.

I don't get the machine picture when I boot the CD, just the text info
screen. I can start installing, but get black screened at the graphic card
installation (I assume, as it mentions SVGA mode or something just before
black screening). Either the confuser locks up and must be rebooted, or it
reboots itself.

I tried the Red Hat hardware site, but it has no list for old 6.2
compatiblity that I could find.

Athlon XP1600
ESI K7S6A MoBo (SIS 745 Chipset)
512Mb ram
ATI Expert 2000 32Mb AGP
17Gb IBM IDE
HP 9150 CD-RW
Realtek Nic PCI
Adaptek 2904 SCSI II PCI
ALI 1394 Fire wire PCI

I am trying to set up a treble boot WIN98SE on a 1Gb primary partiion,
WIN2000PRO on a 3Gb primary Partition, and BDI on a 2 Gb primary partion.,
the extended partion will be FAT32. Won't kill me to boot Linux from a
floppy if I can't get the treble boot working.

Is the ATI card the problem, and is there a workaround, other than replacing
it?

Thanks,
Mark W,
Vienna Austria.