Re: RedHat 7.1 refusing to cleanly install

[Kyle Hargraves <kh nelson hedland edu au>]

On Thu, 31 May 2001, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:

> >         Ensure that the bios and RH agree on the size and type of (IDE)
>
> Hi,
>  ... how do I find out, what the BIOS and RH think that the
> disk characteristics on my IDE Disk (Samsung .. 6,402 MB) are ..

	you should see what is reported in the bios - general
	characteristics or some such heading

	You should be able to auto-detect the disk or enter the
	relevant disk parameters

> until it crashed about 3 weeks ago , didn't ... and after these
> broken 7.1 installs I installed RH *6.2* with no problems into
> the same disk partitions where I installed 7.1 before ...

	try the above and then attempt a 6.2 install.  If that
	works ok then attempt a 7.1 install.  If 7.1 fails
	to install then I would suspect corruption of the
	cd image and obtan a fresh 7.1 cd from an alternative
	source.


Trond Eivind Glomsrø wrote

> I would highly recommend asking questions about (and discussing) Red
> Hat Linux 7.1 on the seawolf-list instead of here.

	...mmmm I'm not convinced its a 7.1 issue per se

cheers,

Kyle Hargraves