I intalled RH8, that seemd to work fine. I restart, I go through
to the end of the final setup, then when I click 'forward' to actually
start Linux not a great deal happens. My screen goes blank and
does not restart. If I kill the power I have to go through to the
end of the final setup again and again as the OS thinks I have
not completed it.

Has anyone heard of this happening before.?

Thanks

Are you installing from a burned CD or from a bought CD? If burned, I would definitely check that first.

Also, if after clicking "forward" and it tries to get you to a GUI login, you may need to just reconfigure your X so that you can see exactly what is going on. Instead of killing the power, try pressing CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE and see if it brings you to a command line. If it does then login as root and type the following:

redhat-config-xfree86

Be sure to have all your hardware specs handy as you'll probably need them (monitor refresh frequencies, vid card info, etc).

If you don't get to the command line, try CTRL+ALT+DELETE and see what it does. Hopefully this will bring you to a command line. If that doesn't work, try pressing ALT+F2 to see if you can get to a terminal command line. If this doesn't work, post us back here.

Well...

I'm a bit red faced... as it turns out it was the power management settings
in the bios. Thanks Texicle for your help, your suggestions will no doubt
come in handy down the track..

Cheers

Glad you got it sorted out.