When I bought my 3200 several months ago I immediately wiped it clean and
tried to install Red Hat 5.0. The install failed, so I bought an
InfoMagic CD and tried Slackware, and it also failed. Recently I took a
shot at installing Red Hat 5.1, again to no avail.
In each case thre problem was this: installation would begin normally, but
several megs into the process it would pause and eventually just die. I
think this is the only symptom of the failure.
I had these results when I wiped the 6 gig hard drive and then created
parttions. There should have been no problem with space, I don't think.
Can anyone speculate on why it dies like that?
The first two gigs of the hard disk are now occupied by Win '95 stuff. I'd
like to preserve it for a while if possible, is it conceivable that Linux
can boot from a partition beyond the first two gigs? I tried it last week,
and the installation died (again) so I don't knoiw fer sure if the bios
will or will not allow booting that far into the drive.
Thanks in advance!
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Edward Bedinger
Technical Communications
Edword Co.
206.782-0378
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