Red Hat 8 & Hard Drive Problems

[JEndo]

While trying to install Red Hat 8 on a brand new hard drive I just installed in my current WinXP system, I encountered the following problem: after booting from the CD, pressing enter at the first installation screen to do a graphical install, a whole bunch of stuff rolls by on the screen... UNTIL I hit the "Partition Check" at which, this appears...

hda: hda1 hda2 <hda5>
hdb: unknown partition table

after that, nothing! nothing else happens. goes nowhere from here. can anyone tell me what the problem is, or how i can fix it?
thanks

[ShAuN the 1337]

you might want to go into the bios and make sure that it is properly recognizing the new harddrive

[JEndo]

yeah, it's recognized. i can see it if i boot up Windows and check out the device manager. i just tried unhooking the new drive, and found that the installation will stall at the same point without it, just frozen at the partition check... i also tried it with REdHat 6.1, and i couldnt even get to the partition check for some reason... froze up just before that, while checking drivers for the drives i think? i installed on a crappy old system i had hanging out in my closet, and it worked fine, but on this one it just doesnt work

[ShAuN the 1337]

you might want to check redhat's ardware compatability list for everything in the system. also, make sure that the harddrives are configured correctly (master and slave, proper ide locations, jumpers)

[JEndo]

ok, well everything is configured correctly, but i havent found my cdrom on RedHats hardware compatibility page... does this mean i should choose another version of Linux? i am just using REdHAt cuz it came with the book i bought... any suggestions would be very helpful

[JEndo]

ok, got everything worked out... finally!