[lug] Severe difficulties in installing RedHat 7.1

[D. Stimits]

Jack Swope wrote:
> 
> I am attempting to install RH 7.1 on a Gateway Select
> Machine.  Let me give you a rundown of the hardware:
> 
> CPU- AMD Athlon 950mhz
> Harddrive- IBM Deskstar-DTLA-307045 ATA/IDE 46.1G,
>     RPM 7200, attached to Promise Ultra ATA Controller
> 
>     or to the primary IDE bus on motherboard
> Memory- 128M
> CDROM- Toshiba DVD-Rom Secondary IDE bus
> Net Card- Intel Pro100+ PCI  adapter
> Video Card- NVidiaRIVA TNT2 Model 64
> Zip Drive- Iomega Zip 250
> Monitor- Gateway EV910B
> Sound Card- Creative SB Live!
> 
> Here's the problem...System hangs while installing RH
> 7.1.  No matter where the hard drive is connected (ATA
> or MB) booting from floppy system reaches "running
> anaconda" and MD recovery thread is activated and
> system unmounts all filesystems mounted and then tells
> me it can be safely rebooted.  I have tried graphic
> install, text install, expert install, and linux dd.
> All hang in approxiamately the same place.  I had
> Caldera Open Linux installed at one time but no
> longer.
> 
> Jack Swope

If your bios has the ability to force the drive into only ultra 33, or
even 66, it might help during the install...lie to it and tell it to try
older standards that way.

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com