hi peter i had the same problem. i fixed it by copying the contents of the cdrom to my c drive under windows 95 and then doing a "hard disk install" from the redhat cdrom. jack > > I try to install RedHat Linux onto my Dell Inspiron PII 266 > from the local CD-ROM placed into the DVD-drive. It hangs > at a random moment while installing the packages and it does > so very soon: on the 3rd or 4th package. The DVD drive > is identified at startup as TORiSAN DVD-ROM DRD-N216. > It's just the same with RedHat 5.1 and 4.2. CDs are fine. > I used them some time ago to install Linux on my desktop. > Also I can read all the contents of the RedHat 5.1 CD > on the same laptop from the same DVD drive under Windows95. > Has anybody encounter this problem? Any ideas what to do? > > Peter. > > > >
