I have Red Hat Linux 5.2 and have tried to install it
on my Dell 200 MMX (32 ram, 4.2 gig. IDE hard drive (2 gig. set aside for
linux), cdrom, Sound blaster 16, 33.6 modem (don't know brand), etc) computer
and a computer of my own making (300AMD, 32mb ram, 3.2 gig IDE hard drive (1.5
gig. set aside for Linux), Windows modem (I know this will be a problem later),
Cybervision monitor, IDE Cd-rom ). I have tried both the workstation and
custom installs multiple times on each computer.
- The Dell fails on loading the superblocks (what are
they?)
- The AMD fails with "Error installing package:
package install of egcs failed. Unpacking of archive failed on file
usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386 - redhat-linux/egcs-2.90/ccl:1:success." Errors
then continue with the same basic error: "location as prevvwm2-icons failed
usr/share/icons/arrup2xpm:1:no such file or directory." "No
space left on device" often accompanies the errors after this
one.
- One possible cause of this problem with the AMD (I
think, because the kernel seems to read all of my hardware when it boots in the
beginning of the install) is that it reads my hardrive as
hdc. I read somewhere that it won't accept anything past
hdb and wonder if this is causing the errors I mentioned
above. I looked in my control panel and found I have three hard drive
controllers for my one hard drive called, "Primary Bus Master IDE
controller (dual fifo), Secondary Bus Master IDE controller (dual fifo), and VIA
Bus Master IDE Controller (Ultra DMA)." Is this causing my hard drive
to be hdc? I have an IDE cd-rom too, but that is the only other
IDE device I have.
P.S. I'm pretty sure I'm not over 1030 cylinder (my system resource report
says I have no more than 800 cylinders)
