HI Everyone,

I have been trying to install Red hat linux on my new Acer laptop.
I have treid all versions of Red hat till 10 ver.
Tried Fedora as well.

Laptop is installed with WinXP and working fine with it.
When i try to boot the laptop with the redhat Linux 10:

It Gives an error message "NO DEVICE DRIVES FOUND"
Asks me to install the drivers, gives a list of drivers relating to PCIMCA, ethernet, raid controllers... several. I have tried to select everything.. none of them suits and it says "cannot install them". I can skip and proceed further.

It them proceeds to installation and asks me if i want manual partition or automatic. No matter what is select it tells "NO HARD DRIVE FOUND"

SPECIFATIONS OF MY ACER NOTEBOOK ARE:
Intel® Pentium® dual-core mobile processor T2310 (1 MB L2 cache, 1.46, 533 MHz FSB)
Mobile Intel® GL960 Express Chipset
Acer InviLink 802.11b/g Wi-Fi CERTIFIED network connection, supporting Acer SignalUp wireless technology
Dual-channel DDR2 SDRAM support
2GB RAM DDR2
Mobile Intel® GL960 Express Chipset with integrated 3D graphics, featuring Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 (Intel® GMA X3100)
Dolby5-certified sound system with two built-in stereo speakers
Intel High Definition Audio support
S/PDIF6 (Sony/Philips Digital Interface)
160 GB or larger hard disk drive
5-in-1 card reader
LAN: Gigabit Ethernet, Wake-on-LAN ready
Modem: 56K ITU V.92 with PTT approval8


WAITING FOR REPLY PLEASE HELP

RedHat 10 was never released. It almost sounds like you are trying to install old releases, bad idea on something so new, with most likely a SATA hard drive.

I agree. Redhat is not suited for laptops and you will end up with frustration. Redhat went upto version 9 and then released Fedora and RHEL.

Laptops should use Ubuntu or anything that is a bit more bleeding edge and has an install candidate suited for laptops.

Alll in all..
you would like me to install ubuntoo linux??

I have to install oracle apps on that linux would ubantoo be the best one...?

Please help.

It really does not matter what application or services you need to run. Linux is Linux regardless what flavor you select. The only reason I suggest Ubuntu is because of its amazing hardware detection and laptop support. Once that is installed, you can install Oracle and whatever else you would as if you were running Redhat.

www.ubuntu.com