Trying to install
RH 7.3 from downloaded ISO cd images.
My computer boots
from the CD ok, then I get the install screen that says I can press Enter to
launch the install in GUI mode. When I press enter, a lot of text comes
up describing my IDE drives, etc. I have two IDE hard drives on one
channel, and on the other channel I have one CD-R (that the linux CD is
booting from) and one CD-RW. All of these devices appear to be properly
recognized as far as I can tell.
My problem is that
the install gets to the part where it is checking the partitions on hda, and
it hangs there with blinking cursor. At first I thought maybe this
process just takes a while, but I have let it sit like this for several hours
without any progress beyone this point.
I've also tried
running "linux noprobe" as well as several of the other options I have seen in
the manual and on-line. All seem to have the same
result.
My primary hard
drive is an 8 GB IBM drive that came with my computer, which is a Dell P2-300
that is several years old. Both of the hard drives have a single NTFS
partition that I want Linux to overwrite. This will not be a dual-boot
machine - it will be Linux only.
I'm not sure what
to try next - any suggestions are welcome. Left to my own methods, I
guess I would try removing the primary hard drive and making the secondary
drive the primary and see what happens. Both of these drives will
partition and format properly under Windows, and they were working fine under
Windows 2000.
Any
ideas?