RHEL4 install format problem on Dell PowerEdge w/PERC RAID

[Thomas Walter]

I decided to install RHEL4 update 3 on a Dell PowerEdge 2400 that was 
running RH9. This machine has hardware RAID 5. The machine can't format 
the / (root) partition. I've tried RHEL 4 update 2 and 3 and Fedora 5. 
RHEL4 update 3 hangs in graphic mode but shows multiple error messages in 
text mode. RHEL 4 update 2 and FC5 come back with the following error 
message:

A error occurred trying to format VolGroup/LogVol00 (which is root). This 
problem is serious and the install cannot continue. I tried deleting the 
LVM related info in the next install and just use the hard disk info but 
received they same error with sda3. 

I'm not sure where to go from here. Any suggestions?

Thanks.

Tom

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