ok,
"made a bootable CD" meaning i burning from the redhat-6.2-i386.iso file. Anyway, I'm
not using partitions cause I'm installing Linux on an Empty 6 gig hardrive. Should i
make partitions anyway? I told Disk Druid to install to my empty hardrive mounted to
"/". Does this make it any clearer?
-Logan
Richard Adams wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Apr 2000, Logan Mayfield wrote about, Instalation problem, PLEASE HELP!:
> > hey,
> > I'm new to the list/Linux. I'm trying to get Red Hat Linux 6.2
> > installed on my
> > computer. I have a PII 400MHz pressor, 64 MB RAM, 2 Harddrives. On one
> >
> > HArddrive I'm running Windows 98, and I'm trying to get Linux Installed
> > on the
> > other hardrive. I downloaded the image file and madea bootable CD.
> > Whenever it
> > starts the installation if freezes. THe screen says it's installing
> > packages,
> > but nothing is happeneing. The box that says creating loopback file
> > system is
> > still there. I even let it sit for several hours (while i slept) to see
> > if it
> > was just going really slow.
> >
> > So, anyone got any suggestions? I really want to get Linux up and
> > running on my
> > system (I'll be runing a dual boot system, I got too much stuff in
> > Windows to
> > just abandon it). Any help would be greatly appriciated.
> >
> > -Logan
>
> I have just installed 6.2 here on one of my boxes, i had no problem at all.
> I burned my own image as well which i got from tucows.
> As to what is happening at your end i do not know, your explanation is far
> to skecthy, pls, tell us what you did when using fdisk, how did you define
> your partitions with disk druid, and if possable try hitting ctrl-alt F2 3
> or 4 and see what the log file says..
>
> O yes, just what is "madea bootable CD" ?????.
>
> The iso image on all mirror sites is a bootable image.
>
> --
> Regards Richard
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