I have an old machine with a 366MHz Celeron, 128MB, and an nVidia NV6
Vanta video card (according to lspci).  I went to install RHEL5 on it,
but the installer keeps failing.  Even in text mode, it gets through the
first several setup screens, then the screen flashes and displays a
screenful of odd characters in 24x80 mode, then it stops and has to be
powered off to reboot.

I tried the vesa driver and the noprobe option, but the result is the
same.  Is this a hopeless cause?  Or is there a way to upgrade without
using the installer?

I have RHEL4 running on it with no problem, but I'd like to upgrade, as
I want to use this machine as a test platform for my main server, which
runs RHEL5, and there is software I use that isn't packaged for RHEL4.

TIA.

-- 
                Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs

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