Linux issues Red Hat 8.0

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caddyjoe77

Mar 4 2003, 04:34 AM

Went to set up my second linux box, this time trying Red Hat instead of Mandrake. Configure drives, install options yada yada. Get to the second disc. Drive not mountable?? Cancel, try again and again..no go...

So, Now I am trying the most basic of basic installs right now, to try and keep in on one disc, then add on other things later. I also had a problem ealier before I started. Inturrupt failed. Figured it had to be an IRQ setting, unplugged a HD and a zip drive. It worked, so then I plugged back in the secondary HD..no problems until those mentioned above.

Any ideas why this might have happened?? Everything was great until I got to the second disc. PC is a P2 233, a whopping 64MB ram, a 4GB drive and a 13GB drive. Matrox millenium 200(go ahead, laugh..lo) and a netgear NIC.

Hopefully, my plan works out..will keep posted

Joe

GSecur

Mar 4 2003, 01:19 PM

Ok first thing, Running Redhat 8.0 with a GUI is going to make that machine bog down. Especially if you are going to run KDE. If you have 128 of ram in that beast you should be fine. I'm running RH8.0 on a 300mhz Laptop and it runs pretty damn good.

But besides that you may have a corrupt disk. You know when redhat install starts it asks you if you wish to check media? Well let it. It's going to take for ever but it will do a checksum on all of your disks to make sure there are no errors. So try that first.

If that doesn't work, dump the CDROM and get a new one

Blake

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Help - Search - Member List - Calendar Full Version: Linux issues Red Hat 8.0 GovernmentSecurity.org > System Security > Linux & Unix Systems caddyjoe77 Mar 4 2003, 04:34 AM Went to set up my second linux box, this time trying Red Hat instead of Mandrake. Configure drives, install options yada yada. Get to the second disc. Drive not mountable?? Cancel, try again and again..no go... So, Now I am trying the most basic of basic installs right now, to try and keep in on one disc, then add on other things later. I also had a problem ealier before I started. Inturrupt failed. Figured it had to be an IRQ setting, unplugged a HD and a zip drive. It worked, so then I plugged back in the secondary HD..no problems until those mentioned above. Any ideas why this might have happened?? Everything was great until I got to the second disc. PC is a P2 233, a whopping 64MB ram, a 4GB drive and a 13GB drive. Matrox millenium 200(go ahead, laugh..lo) and a netgear NIC. Hopefully, my plan works out..will keep posted Joe GSecur Mar 4 2003, 01:19 PM Ok first thing, Running Redhat 8.0 with a GUI is going to make that machine bog down. Especially if you are going to run KDE. If you have 128 of ram in that beast you should be fine. I'm running RH8.0 on a 300mhz Laptop and it runs pretty damn good. But besides that you may have a corrupt disk. You know when redhat install starts it asks you if you wish to check media? Well let it. It's going to take for ever but it will do a checksum on all of your disks to make sure there are no errors. So try that first. If that doesn't work, dump the CDROM and get a new one Blake This is a "lo-fi" version of our main content. To view the full version with more information, formatting and images, please click here.