I'm having trouble installing RedHat 8.0 on a self assembled machine: HD= Seagate 40G Motherboard= MSI 845 Ultra motherboard Ram= 128M CPU=Celeron 700Mhz. This is the process I go through. I start with a naked 40G HD. I insert (RH8 Disc 1) it gives me the message screen... upgrade, install, etc... It starts to install but freezes @ "partition check _". It installed fine on a machine I bought from Gateway. I also tried installing RH Linux 6.1. It gets deeper into the installations but freezes when it tries to install the packages. I think it has something to do with some CMOS settings but I don't know... (obviously) All help is appreciated...

Your RAM is at the bare minumuim. May or may not have a thing to do with it. As long as it is booting I would assumme your cmos settings will work. This also may not have nada to do with it but you mentioned partition check. I always take the raw harddrive and boot it with a windoze 98 boot disk and set a partition and format. Then when I install Linux I delete partitions and format. But it sounds like you have gotten a little deeper into it than that. I am not famailier with that motherboard but I would make sure that you have over 64 mb of mememory enabled. I think it is OS2 . I may be wrong on this but I always set mine up as a plugnplay system also. I have never had any trouble installing any version of redhat. But the slowest PC I have ever put it on was a 1.0 Duron with 512mb of pc 133. I have RedHat 9.0 on an 1800+ and 512mb of ddr pc 2100. Check that 64 mb deal in the bios. Good Luck Ron

To Ronald: I also have a self assembled machine with RAM= 512M PC2100 DDR. CPU= P4 2.4Ghz Motherboard= Albatron PX845E ProII I get the same results "partition check _" I was reading something about passing "ide=nodma" to the kernel... Know anything about that?

Patrick, Yes, that is known to work, the kernel has compatibility issues with some computer system setup's (motherboards, hard drives, ide controllers..etc). When your computer boots to the install boot menu (where you have the option to Install / View release notes etc) try typing one of these at the prompt: linux nodma linux noapic linux nousb linux apm=off You can also group them together, ie linux nodma nousb noapic....etc Also, check to see that DMA is disabled in your bios, and that PNP is also disabled. Ronald, The RAM should not be a problem, i have an old box here i use for development that is running RedHat with 64mb RAM perfectly, sure, it may eat into the SWAP sometimes but most of the time it doesnt (with Apache, Samba, and a whole load of other services running). Chris

Chris, That is why I said I was unsure. I have DMA enabled should I disable PnP in the bios? Thanks Ron

Patrick and Chris, I must have been thinking about my old Duron setup. I have an Epox with a KT-133 chipset. It had the over 64 mb option and the PnP option. I just checked my bios and there is no over 64 mb option and the PnP just has the abiality to set the IRQs for the PCI slots and that is all. I just left them set to auto. I have 4 usb 2.0 ports 2 1.1 USB ports and my 10/100 eathernet port are all on IRQ 10. It has not been a problem because I dont have anything hooked up to those ports. And Linux is supposed to be better than windoze and I have many shared IRQs on my XP pro box and it works fine. I use those multiple ports and hardware at the same time with it no problems. I guess if I am ever lucky enough to get broadband and a use for the USB ports. I will find out if the shared IRQs are a problem in RedHat 9.0. Other than the looks I still liked 7.3 better. Patrick I am sorry for the confusion. Chris thanks for setting us on the right track Take Care Ron

Here are my 2 cents: I installed RH8.0 without trouble on a 1.7GHz Pentium 4, but when I tried with the same set of CD's on my new 1.6GHz Celeron Pentium IV it dies somewhere in the process complaining about not finding the right rpm's on the CD. It looks like the RH8.0 doesn't like Celerons.