HELP! firewire, hardware, etc RH9.0

["Sabrina Savage" <astrosabby hotmail com>]

I've installed linux before without problems, but this time is like pulling 
out
teeth ... I'm dual-booting the system with XP and RH9.0which does not seem 
to be a
problem.  When I go to install linux, it hangs on "loading ohci1394..."  So 
I
added nofirewire to the boot prompt and it installed from there.  I also 
added
boot=nofirewire to the grub kernel because it would hang while booting after
installation.

However, when I boot linux from grub, it hangs on checking for new hardware. 
 I
had to force it to skip this step with the interactive setup just so that I
could get it to boot.  But this is of course a huge problem because now it 
has
no mount points for the cdrom or floppy drive.	I tried the mount -t iso9660
/... blah but that did not work at all.  I tried using the hardware browser,
but that just hangs.

Please help!  I really need to get this up and running asap.

I'm using an hp pavilion ze5300 laptop.

Thank you.
Sabrina

p.s.  I've sent this before, but I don't think it got through.
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