> 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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