On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 16:15, Stanley A. Schultz wrote: > I began with a straight forward installation of Red Hat Linux 7.1 choosing > [EXPERT] mode and "Install Everything." (What the heck? I've got plenty of > disk space and who knows when I'll want to play with a new toy!)
I'm going to pretty much echo what everyone else has been saying. First of all I'd go and download or buy the latest version of RedHat (7.3). I've heard of way too many install problems that are fixed in the newer versions, or install problems that are caused by hardware that older systems don't support. Also, I would skip the expert install and the Install Everything". There could be package conflicts when you tell it to install everything. I'd start with a default install, and then add apps as you need them. Second of all your partitioning is all messed up. I'd follow the KISS method at least for now. Start by removing all your non-FAT32 partitions. I would also forget about the 2.4G hard drive for the time being. You can always set it up as a file storage drive later (maybe make it a vfat drive so that you can store files from both Windows and Linux). Once you have a wack load of free space on your drive, I would run the RedHat installer and and tell it to auto-partition the free space. This way you will know that it is done correctly and that you have all the partitions that you need. Also, if they are all on the same drive, in the same chunk, then there will be no confusion about mounting a partition from a secondary drive on boot time. As for you X re-spawning problem, I have seen this many a time when the monitor or graphics cards are not setup properly. I always just run whatever X-Config. program RedHat comes with and if all else fails, hack away at the XF86Config file. However this may be due to your faulty install, and it may be fixed by a newer version of X that is included in RedHat 7.3. I hope this helps, Jesse
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