On 26-Apr-98 Dan Hughes wrote:
> Hi,
> I have been trying to install redhat 5.0 on a p233mmx machine. It has
> a
> 4.0 gb Western Digital hard drive, that supports UltraDMA. It also has a
> Teac 24X cdrom, 33.6 modem that I know works with Redhat because I am
> using it on another machine that runs redhat 5.0. It would be a dual
> boot
> system also with windows95 on it. It has a diamond 2000 video card that
> I
> know will be supported by Xwindows, and I have monitor that I have
> documentation on. When I built this machine, every part I put into it, I
> put in with Linux in mind.
> That is why I cannot figure out why when I tried to install
> Redhat5.0 to my machine, it began to produce many errors. I will try and
> keep this short so as to keep any listeners attention. I tried
> partioning
> the hard drive for linux, splitting the dos partition at about 600 megs.
> Then I created a root partition for linux trying to keep it below 1024
> cylinders. After that I created the second Dos partition of about 1.8
> gigs. I the proceeded to give linux about 2 gigs of space, based upon
> different partitions of /usr , /home dirctories and the swap file.
> At this point I followed the install steps in setting up linux.
> At the point where the install program tried write the operating system
> (not format) to the partitions I had a variety of errors. Sometimes the
> install program hung. Sometimes the program would give error warning
> signs and then hang. My all time favorite was when the screen began to
> change colors and spout messages in a disorganized fashion across the
> screen. I have installed Linux before. The am using most of the same
> parts that I used in the last linux machine I installed aside from the
> harddrive, ram (SDRAM), and cdrom. Every else in this machine I have
> researched and they are supported. This should not have been a problem.
> I was lucky to get the hard drive back to a functional state, being that
> disk druid would not allow me to completly delete the / and swap
> partitions.
I _NEVER_ successfully got Disk Druid to work for me, out of my several
hundred installs. Have you tried using fdisk? I always works for me.
> Please read this and please tell me if I made any errors. If you
> want more information I will be glad to send it to you. I may try
> installing redhat 4.2 to my machine instead. I have never done an full
> install of redhat 5, only upgrades. If anyone has any ideas please send
> me an e-mail.
I would definitely install with 4.2 first. That will effectively eliminate
all of the hardware possibilities, although I don't see anything that would
cause the problems you're having (outside of my personal suspicions about
the 5.0 install script).
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