Re: Newbe Linux install

["Adam Williams" <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>
> This is about my 6th attempt to install Redhat's linux. Starting with Redhad
> 5.0, 5.1 and now 5.2.
> Below is a list of the procedure that I have used.
> Installed dos on WD 850 mb drive
> Fdisked drive 2 conner 1.gig and deleted partition
> Installed windows 95 on drive 1
> Made drive 2 a dos partition with fdisk
> Deleted partion 2 with partition magic to prep for linux instal

Looks good so far.  Can you tell us if you have something like OnTrak disk
manager or something installed?  Is LBA (CMOS setting) turned on or off?  Are
you installing from a "genuine" Red Hat CD, a knock off, or over a network?

>
> Attempted to install on drive D:
> Mount point
>              Hda1
>              813M
>              813M
>              Dos 16-bit >=32
>             /
>              Hdc1
>              75M
>              75M
>              Linux Native
>             /usr
>              Hdc5
>              300M
>              300M
>              Linux native
>             /home
>              Hdc7
>              200M
>              200M
>              Linux Native
>              Hdc8
>              50M
>              50M
>              Linux swap
>             /usr/local
>              Hdc6
>              250 406M growable
>              206M
>              Linux native
>
>
> System then created swap from hdc8
> Diagnostic messages.....
>

Something happens between these two events?  Does it make all the filesystems
or just swap and hdc7?

> Making ext filesystem on /dev/hdc7
> ftp package failed installing to /home
>

Does is install any packages to the system before this one fails?

This seems odd to me.

> system crashed
>

You mean it is hung at this point?  There are no further messages?  Can you
Ctrl-Alt-F2 to a diffrent console?

What type of machine is this exactly?  Some versions of Compaq, NEC, and Acer
require special nursing to run anything except DOS.

Do you have anything like that strange BIOS level Virus protection turned on?
 I've had that cause systems to puke on Linux.  Apparently everything but M$ is
viewed as an infection,  I think it should be the other way around.