This may be a little "wild" but try making the boot floppies for the RH8 install then copy the ISO images of the install CD's onto the Compaq's Hard disk (You'll need to make a partition large enough to handle the 3 files). Then boot from the install floppy and select Hard Disk when asked for the location of the installation media. I don't know what capacity hard disk you have in the machine but if it's new this shouldn't be a problem. Once you're done with the install you can get rid of the partition containing the ISO's (with Linux fdisk, or whatever).
Hope that helps. Ben Hornedo -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gilad Ben-Yossef Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 3:23 PM To: Raft of Circumcised Penguins Subject: Compaq Evo N1015v I'm having trouble getting RedHat 8.0 to install on my brother new shiny $SUBJECT. The installation seems to proceed fine up till the phase were it seems to be trying to access the CDROM at which point it halts with no error message - just a blank installation screen. Accept for the fact that the installation halts without a message, the symptoms and log messages are identical to the ones reported in this message from the redhat installers mailing list: http://www.redhat.com/mailing-lists/redhat-install-list/msg25409.html Sadly, no solution is offered there. If anyone has succeeded in installing any Linux distribution on this computer, or read anywhere about a solution to this problem or even has a wild idea, kindly let me know. It would be rather embarcing for me to admit that I can't get Linux installed on my brother new laptop and firther more because of the very cheap prices HP offers these beasts lately I would wager that I would not be the last to run into this. Gilad. -- Gilad Ben-Yossef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://benyossef.com "Geeks rock bands cool name #8192: RAID against the machine" ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
