Ok,
1. The media I am installing from is a local cdrom. I have not
registered my copy of redhat at this point. I did purchase the copy from a
local best buy. Do you know if ultra dma is accessed in the bios settings
or processed by the software? If ultra dma is set then it may be messing
up the machine.
2. The fisrt error that I recieved was a mount error.
This came up in a box and was organized.
The second error I recieved was an rpm scripting error(I seem to
recall the words umount unsucessful) .
There was some disorganization to the screen but it was still
readable.
The third error was all over the place and I am not sure what the
error was. ( I am not going to go back step by step to reproduce
it now)
3. The problem I had with disk druid was not necessicerily an bug.
Disk druid does help you with the install, but I was using the
install process to remove the linux partitions and the extended
partion.
With the older version of Linux's fdisk, I was able to completly
remove the partitions. Disk druid told me I had to have a root
and swap partition to continue, then it would write the changes in
the partition table to disk. With fdisk, it let me write the
changes of not having a root and swap partition when I exited.
Thank you for the reply,
Dan Hughes
On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Dave Wreski wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> All the hardware seems to be ok. (except the udma won't be supported until
> 2.0.34, to be released shortly) What media are you installing from? Is
> this a registered copy?
>
> Perhaps try installing a minimal system first. Try resetting the BIOS
> settings to the default.
>
> > That is why I cannot figure out why when I tried to install
> > Redhat5.0 to my machine, it began to produce many errors.
>
> What kind of errors exactly?
>
> > install program hung. Sometimes the program would give error warning
> > signs and then hang.
>
> What kind of warning signs exactly?
>
> > My all time favorite was when the screen began to
> > change colors and spout messages in a disorganized fashion across the
> > screen.
>
> This sounds like one of the packages were corrupt. Again, try installing
> only the basic system first, then work from there.
>
> > 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'm sure [EMAIL PROTECTED] would be interested in this, as well as
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], as he is the author.
>
> > 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.
>
> Hollar if you need more help..
> Dave
>
>
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