installing Enterprise version 4, not recognizing hard drive
Hello,
I'm trying to install Red Hat Enterprise version 4 on a work computer. It's a Dell Precision PWS490 desktop with Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU. I'm booting from the install CDs. When I go through the prompts, it asks if I want to load drivers. We don't have driver disks at work. All of the drivers on the list seem to be for ethernet devices anyway. When I try to skip this step, it does not perform the installation because it says it can't recognize a hard drive. It won't let me do any partitioning either. He has successfully installed Linux from these same install CDs on a similar Dell computer with no problems. I see from other posts that the answer has been that the version of Linux is so old, it doesn't recognize the hardware on the newer computer, but it installed on the other computer fine. He has the giant Linux tome "Linux unleashed" (?) and we didn't see anything in there to help. Any suggestions as to how to proceed??
Also, I find most of the jargon used on these posts unfamiliar, so is there a reference someone can suggest so I can become more literate?
Thank you,
K
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