Red Hat installation
Hi, A few months ago I downloaded Red Hat onto 3 CDs.
I bought a new hard drive today and decided to instal linux on a machine that I have cobbled together out of bits and bobs. Installation disc 1 went without a hitch, When I was asked for Disc 2 it keeps saying that it isnt the proper disc, so in case I had mixed up 2 with 3 ( Which was most highly unlikely as I was there at the changeover time and had marked the discs accordingly) I tried disc 3. Same response. Now I have a brand new hard disc that wont do anything. Any ideas. Cheers, Bill

I may have bad news for you - disk 2 may not have downloaded correctly. You have 3 choices - rburn the cd, redownload and burn or installa minimal installation (which hopefully only needs disk 1) and then upgrade and install via the web.

Oh, there is another option - do a reinstall but select "linux text" at bootup. I have had varying levels of success with the gui install.

Red Hat marks and checksums the CDs with MD5. If the installation routine says it's no good, it's no good. This could be because of burning error, downloading error, or that mischievious little cousin with the belt sander.

I'm pretty sure you can't do even a minimal RH 9 installation with a single disk... I don't think that's been possible since RH7.x or thereabouts.

Re-download & burn the CDs. This time, when you start the installation, say "yes" when it asks you to verify the CDs. It will take a very long time (since it will be reading every single byte on all three CDs) but you will be assured that you have clean error-free CDs without any malware or trojans introduced by the download site.