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im a linux newbie trying to install redhat 9 from cds that came with the linux bible. My computer already has windows xp on it and it came with one partition. I bought acronis disk director suite and made another partition for linux. The cds boot when i reset but i keep getting the error "no devices were found to create new file systems" i think it may not be detecting my partition but it wont install how can i overcome this?
Complaining about devices refers probably to not detecting the harddisk at all, rather than not finding a partition. Usually installers "don't care" about what partitions already exist, rather they just present you with options to format whole disk and partition automatically, let you do it etc..what kind of harddisk is it, maybe a sata one? It might be that RedHat9 doesn't have a driver for your harddis, and you would need to either manually get one or try a newer version (Fedora Core).
Redhat 9 is old, and if your drives are SATA or anything else modern, it probably won't detect them.
You'll end up with all sorts of driver issues, so I'd strongly suggest that you do what b0uncer suggests and download Fedora - it's basically the new redhat, and the steps in the book will more or less apply
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