My guess is the boot block is not being cleared properly by the RH 
install.

I would use fdisk in DOS (win95 or 98) to delete all partitions and fdisk 
/mbr to rewrite the master boot record.

or

I would use fdisk in Linux to delete all partitions and 'dd if=/dev/nul 
of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1' to write nuls to the first sector of hda (the 
first drive).

Either of these will DELETE ALL DATA access on the drive in question.

Richard.


 On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Paul Copeland wrote:

> Hi James and others,
> 
> 
> >I'm a little confused -- why are you trying to transfer the image to the
> >computer? If you've got a network, why not boot from a install floppy
> >thing and do a network install? That way you're only transferring the
> >stuff you want to install.
> 
> I am not transferring the image deliberately.  After going through 
> partitioning and X servers set-up and saying I want to install, the 
> installer puts up a message saying, transferring Install image to HD.  I 
> have not selected this and RH is the only Linux distribution I have 
> installed that says this.  It then gives me a message saying there is not 
> enough room on the HD.  As I said in my initial post I have installed 4 
> other distributions on these machines without problem.
> 
> Best to all
> Paul
> 
> 

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