RH9 Installation Issues

[YeNotGuilty]

Well, since I couldn't quite run my Debian (I think I had bad disk images or something) i decided to go out and buy one of the big ol books on RH9 that came with the 2 CD set with the distro on them.

Well, i pop the first disk in, tell it to run the setup, and it gets hung up on a "Loading ohci1394 driver" message. I've tried going the way of a text-only installation, but I get the same problem. Why is it locking up?

I'm running:
HP Pavilion Notebook
Intel Pentium 4 2.4Ghz
448 Recognized RAM
40 GB HDD (partitioned into 2 20's for linux and winxp)
internal 10/100 PCI Ethernet card, conexant AClink 56k modem, LAN-Express Wireless LAN card, with a 1024x768 LCD display.

Can anyone tell me why this is doing this, and/or a way around it?
Thanx
[EDIT]
Or do I have to take Debian out somehow before trying this?
I'm figuring that this thing is trying to load a FireWire (IEEE 1394) adapter driver...but since I don't need it i'm not sure why it's doing it at all

maybe i need to let it sit on for 6 days......

[YeNotGuilty]

anyone have any idea? i've tried text version, not having it detect hardware configs, making a boot floppy, everything goes to this one screen (grey box on a blue background, box says Loading ohci1394 driver")

[YeNotGuilty]

Ok, a little more in-depth stuff I managed to fanagle outta my laptop...during the installation i managed to alt-f3 it so i saw exactly what was going on, here's exactly where it hangs up:

found firewire ohci1394
modules to insert: ieee1394 ohci1394
installing ieee1394.o

and it locks up tighter than...well...than a set of zip strip handcuffs.

I can take the CD out, but neither that nor anything else has any effect. the CD spools down after that message and just stops, the processor fans keep going like mad but nothing happens, etc. etc...I may just have to take the book back and get a new one (if they'll take the book back once I opened the CD packet, dunno bout B&N's return policies)

[mdwatts]

Sorry for the delay in replying.

At the initial boot/install prompt, enter

nofirewire

and that should get you past the firewire loading problem.

Does your laptop have firewire? If so, you could try disabling or changing the firewire settings in the bios.

Try the first suggestion first.

[YeNotGuilty]

thanks, the nofirewire command did the trick

Yeah, my laptop has a firewire port (but i never use it, seeing as how i have no firewire devices), but i checked the bios before I posted here and I couldn't find anything in there worth a damn about it...

but thanks for your help, and hopefully I will be posting next from my new Red Hat install!