trouble with RH 7.3 on desktop

[craig1]

the install keeps crashing half way through. i tried to save the error but it woudlnt' save to a floppy for me. i get half wya through with disk 1 still in the drive when it says an exception has occurred. i hit debug and it's something about "umount" . the prompt says it's most likely a bug but regaurdless it crashes out. this happened in GUI and text mode install. i'd really like to get my box running linux.

if you need more info i'll try and save the dump thinger.

system info:
athlon XP 1900
512megs DDR
2 80 gig WD caviars
asus a7v266-E main board
radeon 7500 vid card
SB live! sound

[fancypiper]

Are your CDs burnt or pressed? If burnt, was an md5sum checked? If the iso is good,try burning another. Especially if you have to do it in Windows. It produces many coasters.

Posting the type of install may help, especially if you are attemption a dual boot with any Windows OS. The version of Windows is needed as well because they use different filesystems.

[craig1]

i'm dual booting with win 98 first edition on a second drive (primary master). i know the ISO's are good because i installed on them before with my old machine which was also dual booting with 2 seperate drives and the same windows install (same cd).

[Brownstixzz]

Do a media check with your disk 1 of your Redhat 7.3 disk on all three of them. Just to make sure.

You stated that you have 2 80 gigs?
How are you installing Win98 W/ RedHat? Are you doing it per say 98 on one 80 and Redhat on the 2nd or are you doing the dual on just one 80 and using the second for?








:)

[craig1]

Originally posted by Brownstixzz
Do a media check with your disk 1 of your Redhat 7.3 disk on all three of them. Just to make sure.

You stated that you have 2 80 gigs?
How are you installing Win98 W/ RedHat? Are you doing it per say 98 on one 80 and Redhat on the 2nd or are you doing the dual on just one 80 and using the second for?





:)

the former, one OS per drive. my original plan was to have two seperate drives for redhat so i could mount swap on the third, but the woes of IDE drives struck again.

how would i do a media check? these discs are about a month old and have been sitting in the jewel case on top of my tv. should i just reburn the first ISO?

[craig1]

i've been having trouble with this second hard drive. i can't get windows to see it and when i try to use the "data lifeguard" utilities on it, they won't work. is it possible i have a bad drive?

the bios sees it and gives me a serial for it and everything it's just not showing in windows. the linux install program also knows it's there and writes to it and partitions it.

[fancypiper]

Windows cannot see filesystems such as ext2, ext3, xfs, or reiserfs, the most commonly used in Linux. Win98 can only see fat16 and fat32 filesystems.

Filesystems howto (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Filesystems-HOWTO.html)