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I am having trouble installing Red Hat Linux 8.0 on my computer. While I am installing the os, it gets to a point where it asks whether I have a device driver disk. But I don't know what driver I need. I don't have any extra hardware on my computer. It has a cd rom and a floopy internally installed and I have a Nvidia GeForce2 GTS/Pro 64 mb graphics card installed on the agp port. I tried to install Red Hat on an older system and at the first screen there was a graphic of Red Hat 8.0, and then you would select how you wanted to install the os. When I run the install now I don't get that graphic it just brings up the install choices. Do I need a VGA driver on a disk? My motherboard is an Asrock K7S8X with the sis 746fx chipset. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

You should be able to install in text mode with any video card by typing "text" at the prompt instead of hitting enter or letting it timeout. I would expect a prompt for a driver disk if it could not find
nic card
cdrom
target mediaIf for example your cdrom was driven by your sound card or your disk was scsi on a non-supported scsi card. Does it boot from cd?

yeah it boots from the cd fine, I have tried to do a text install but it does the same thing. everything else is built into the motherboard.
I did notice that during the install when it's probing hardware there are a number of times when it says
IRQ probe failed 0xfffffff8
and a couple of times
hda: lost interrupt

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