Running anaconda against an ISO image of pinstripe on my laptop yielded a graphical install where the windows stretched off the screen. You could not do anything without guessing which button was the default (ie, hitting tab and using enter). I have done several pinstripe installs on other machines, but they have all been network installs and I haven't had this problem. Most beta testers are probably doing network installs as well, because we obviously have the bandwith to do so and hence, never encounter this bug either. This is a fairly glaring bug that will turn anyone off that doesn't have the savvy to start up and use the text-based installer, while also being annoying :). I can snap a picture with my digital camera if anyone is confused about what is going on here.
You will have to use the text mode install be typing 'linux text' at the installer boot prompt. For our records - what laptop are you having problems with?
If this is the real solution to the problem, then there should be some sort of test screen with 4 borders, each a different color (or something) and in the center it should say "Click here if you can see the Red, Blue, Green and White borders". I've installed RedHat several times and it wasn't a problem for *me* to install with the text mode, but if this was my first exposure to it, I'd have probably given up since I couldn't click on an 'Okay' button (because it was off the screen). The Laptop is a Nan-Tan 800 series from about 1997 with a Trident chipset that can do 800x600 (but anaconda starts it up in VGA). I still think the installer should be written to run in a minimal resolution (see the debate on gnome-devel right now where the policy is changing such that all GNOME applications function in that resolution) and that it is a bug to require someone to use the non-default text mode when this happens.
In future releases we will probably support frame-buffer based installed that will help with this problem.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 20229 ***