Well i am having a very strange problem when try to install Redhat 8 or 7.2 on this machine i just put together. The board is Abit kt7 RAID with a 750 mhz processor and 96mb of ram(low but no funds to upgrade now). When i try to install every thing goes well until the installer starts to copy the install image to the hardrive, it gets about a 1/4 of the way through and it locks up or it stops with no lock up, when i hit alt ctrl F3 or something is shows that there is a problem copying GNOME files over. I have run numerous tests on the hard drive with no problems, i have used the CD-rom for other linux installs on diffrents systems with no problem. RAID is disabled in the BIOS, and i have run the disk checks on all the CDS and they pass. It does the same with 7.2. Can any one Help?

Could you try with another cd drive? Or when choosing what to install, don't choose GNOME.

I tried a diffrent drive and i go t the same results, i will skip installing gnome and see where that gets me. I didnt' try not installing gnome because installing 7.2 does tha same thing. Thanks for the info

I bet this is a hard disk BIOS configuration error, even everything shows up correct try to set the hard disk conf in the BIOS to AUTO, or it is a clock problem..

I decided to give RH 8.0 a try also - took it off the second day and went back to MDK 9.0. Had no sound with RH. Now awaiting my Knoppix CD.

Well i decided to try to install win2k to rule out hardware. Win 2k won't install either so it looks hardware related. It has problems transfering files.

Well i decided to try putting the cdrom on the same ide channel as the hard drive and that worked.....So i guess maybe the second IDE channel is bad or soething along those lines. Thanks for all the help