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Red Hat 8.0 Install

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Name: Ross
Date: April 3, 2003 at 20:33:19 Pacific
OS: none
CPU/Ram: Amd Athlon Xp 1800+, 128
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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.



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Name: David Perry
Date: April 4, 2003 at 06:43:43 Pacific
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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 media

If 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?


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Response Number 2
Name: rthughes
Date: April 4, 2003 at 07:07:30 Pacific
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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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