Hi friends, I have just bought a new PC which is, pentium 1.9 GHz, 256 Mb RAM, and 80 Gb Hard Disk. When I tried to install Linux on this, it does not show any bad blocks in memory, but it hangs suddenly while copying the install image to local drive. The windows got installed peacefully, and doesnot create any problem. I tried to install Linux both before installing windows and after installing windows. But same problem occurs. can anyone help me?

It sounds like you have a bad CDs!!! Did you at least test out your CDs at the beginning before you ran the installation process? If you didn't, you should because it saves you a lot of trouble later on... Also, make sure you burn those three ISO files as image files, not just unpack and copy them to your CDs. And before you I forget, you NEED to run the checksum of those three files after you've downloaded to make sure that they are correct! taurus

Linux for the first time... Hello, I got two CDs from a friend - #2 and #3... I found that I needed #1 bootable CD. I copied content of the CDs (2 and 3) to my hard drive and later downloaded #1. It works well - installation starts and asks for CD#2 or 3 but installation program doesn't accept these cds, which I created by copying files and burning... How can I install Linux (RH9) from files on my hard drive??? Thanks for any help...

You said you just "copy the files", but, the point is, how did you do that ? If you still have those cds the best you can do is to make a "disk-to-disk" copy, otherwise you should make an iso image from them (every cdburning software can make it) as well as the popular utility called "winiso". and then you can burn an exact copy of the source. grabbing the files to a folder not always work ;) ciao Max