actually this HW is new, so there was no distro running on it. I tries 13.2 and there are also no Fx options in the installer as it used to be. I just tried the latest fedora and the kernel boots into the installer out of the box. By settings nomodeset - do you mean to press 'e' in the grub on 'install' option and then add it to the line of initramfs or something similar?