I have installed a version that I had in an older textbook (last year)on a second hard drive, and it is OK. I can access all of the stuff in this version. The problem is that I am not successful in installing a newer version (Redhat Linux 7.3)in the same drive. This is a second hard drive that is only used for Linux. I have looked up how to kickstart. and when I tried, the floppy drive was not recognized. After going into the terminal window (under floppy) I couldn't get anywhere to try to mount the floppy. I was also logged in as the root user. From there I went into the "/etc/fstab" file and the floppy was titled " /dev/sdb / mnt/floppy". I also tried to look at the sdb file, but I was denied. I also tried to reboot the system using the newer version (7.3) with the hope that I could install from there, but nada. Thank you in advance for any advise.

7.3 is a newer version? you know that was out 6 years ago?? in everything you've said, you've not mentioend cd drives once... just burn an iso and install the conventional way...

Chris
Could you tell me how to do this? (burn an iso) What version would you recommend?
Thanks

just follow the guides in our answers / documentation section about burning iso's, it's very simple. and just get the newest version of fedora of that's what you want. I noticed that you used the name "fedora" in the title yet never made any reference to it at all...

Download this file:

ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/pub/fedora/...mages/boot.iso

Burn it to a CD

Boot it

Hit enter

Choose to install from ftp

Configure network with DHCP

for the mirror, or server: mirrors.kernel.org

for the path: /pub/fedora/core/6/i386/os/

And let it rip.