Red hat newbie
 

hi all.

I just downloaded red hat 9. After i burned isos on the cd, i've tried to install it.

instalation went trough up to disk formating thing (dont remember what its called -- newbie) after i tried to format my hard drive, ive clicked next and my system gave me 11 message, and now each time i try to reinstall Red hat it wont even start "anaconda" thing :( it gives me same 11 error. theres nothing wrong with the system, it all works fine with any version of Windows :jawa: .

may this problem be because of my pc???


PC spec

Athlon XP 2000+
1024 mb DDR
120gb hd & 100gb hd
GeForce3 64mb video
built in network and sound
MSI motherboard
system is about 2yrs old

please help:Pengy:

I just stumbled into this forum, well I am running RedHat 9 and I have installed it a few times ;) I'm not sure what you did. Are you installing on a new hard drive? Do you have other partitions? When it comes to formatting the hard drive I select manual install and create multiple partitions. (Not that you have to).
The only thing I could recommend would be to boot to CD and try again. Make sure you have a root / mount point and that any lables have been assigned to mount points.
Good Luck!
alar

Maybe I should add if you are totally new to linux
your first hard drive is /dev/hda
It come be broken up into multiple partitions.
If you have windows it will probably go on /dev/hda1 and will be labelled /dos (or something)
You need a swap space say /dev/hda3 (no label) (Double the size of RAM)
and a place for root. /
That could go as /dev/hda4
If you have a second drive /dev/hdb
You can partition it with different mount points or just install all of Linux there at mount point /

(The real gurus will be shaking their heads I'm sure....)
Hope this helps :)
alar

:scratch: red hat is friggin killing me!!! ive played with ram and disconected my hard drive, it seemed to install OS, but when I reboot computer it gives me sh*t again!!! Im thinking that I should try to install mandrake and see what happends. cause i heard that its easier to use and based on the Red hat.....


So if theres any gurus who might know what the hell is going on, please help. :confused:

btw i use Toshiba dvd rom. maybe thats the problem???:cry:







:newbie:

I'm a newbie as well. I had similar problems as well, I found that my iso images did not download correctly. Did you us the checksum figures to verify you recieved all the files?

I had to re-download disc1 and disc3, curious I noticed you are from Oregon did you download from (limestone.uoregon.edu)? This is where I downloaded from.

Oh yea I have a Toshiba DVD 1202 as well.