error reading packages
 

Hello I'm trying to install red hat linux 6.2 on my pent 4 system.

I have win2k on the main partition and winxp on another partition.

I boot from the redhat 6.2 disc that I burned from the i386 .iso file

The setup asks me for my language, keyboard layout, mouse, timezone, etc. then it shows the dialogue reading packages for a few seconds while reading the CDROM before coming back with an error and terminatating the install.


Any idea on how I can get around this also the gui install isn't loading even when I just hit enter without typing anything at the boot: prompt it loads the text/keyboard interface with the blue background which is definitely different from the gui that is shown on the redhat installtion guide on www.redhat.com

if you're just now starting with linux,
try something newer that will likely
have support for your hardware.

I agree, if you a a newbie then use something like Mandrake 9.1. As you have a P4 you must have very modern hardware and this is a nice new distro which should handle it ok. Mandrake is probably one of the easiest for newbies.

The distro you are trying is very old and likely to contact various security problems which have been fixed a long time ago.

Cheers

Iain

well I'm on dialup and that was the most recent version of linux where I only had to download 1 CD...I'm not a total newbie so if you might have some ideas I would appriciated it


all I want the OS for the programming tools like the gnu suite.

you could download a minimal gentoo, and just have
it download the stuff you need, after it gets started.

the bsd's will also let you do a minimal install, ftp style, and
you could download just what you needed.
I'm talking about well less than 100 megs of download.

i would guess that there is something wrong with
the iso you downloaded, or something about your
hardware that is making the 6.2 crash.

try the cd on an older computer. knoppix is a great
single cdrom download.
there are also many minimalist distributions
like peanut, which are just a 50-200 meg download.

http://www.ibiblio.org/peanut/

http://www.realtime-info.be/encyc/rt...nux/TinyLinux.