If you have the DVD CDROM (Torisan), you can't install from the
CD, you have to do a hard drive install! I don't know about
an FTP install...
Craig
---Ned Bedinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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!
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Edward Bedinger
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