>I am having problems installing Redhat 5.0
>
>Hardware
>
>Asus TX7 pentium mother board
>Intel P54C 233MMX Mhz
>64Mb EDO ram (72pin)
>Diamon stealth 64 Vram with 4Mb
>2 x 6Gb seagate IDE Ultra DMA hard disks (using 32bit fat)
>3Com 3C590 combo ethernet card
>Adaptec 2940 SCSI ultra wide controller
>Seagate Travan 4/8Gb tape streamer
>Dysan 32x IDE CD-Rom
>Dysan 6x read / 2x write CD Rewriter
>Genius netmouse
>
>First question, should I have any problems using this hardware with Linux?
>
>I have re-partioned my slave hard disk to leave 2Gb free
>I run the redhat install. When it comes to the partitioning, I
>select to use the "Druid". I make a Linux native partition of
>1.948 Gb and swap partition of 62Mb. When I try continue
>I get told their is no swap partition?? If I remove the swap
>partition & then try continue, I get told I must make a swap
>partition.
>
>I then deceided to use the normal fdisk to make the particions.
>This seemed to work fine. The install proceeds , I format the
>partitions, I select virtually everything to install, and at the point
>where I guess it should start copying the stuff from the CD, I get the
>following error
>
>"Mount failed:Invalid argument"
>
>What am I doing wrong? How do I get around this?
>
>Sorry if I am being too long winded.
>
If you have chosen to mount the dos partitions, you will get a problem
(Linux can't read fat32). I don't know if this is after where you are or
before, because I haven't installed in the last few months :)
Hope this helps.
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