Hi guys,
I am very new to linux, trying learn myself

I have a AMD system

Processor: Athalon LE1600+ 2.2 GHz
Motherboard : MSI
HardDisk : SATA Hard drive 80 GB (only 15 GB for linux)
CD DRive: Moserbaer DVD RW
I am trying to install RHL9, it is giving me an option to choose from where to install if i choose the cd drive and proceed

it gives me an message that cd drive is not detected, and my cd drive does not eject until i reboot

can somebody tell me where i am making the mistake and wat should i do to have it installed...

thanks in advance guys

RH9 is the equivalent to Win95 - way too old to recognise your gear. Try and get Fedora 9; (Fedora 1 followed RH9, and we're now up to 9 ....)

Make it easy on yourself, download PCLinuxOS 2007 Live CD or Puppy Live CD. If you like, install. PCLinux also has a Gnome version.
Good Luck, Michael

After RH9 Redhat split into two forks. The first fork was the free Fedore Core (later just Fedora). The second fork was RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) which charges for upgrades and support. Unfortunately Fedora(currently F9) now only has support for about one year, after that there are no official updates of any kind. RHEL has support for at least five years. Fortunately there is Centos. Centos is RHEL with the logos removed. It is free to download and update. Centos is binary compatible with RHEL and has the same support life. The current version of RHEL/Centos is 5.2.