I am trying to install linux on a maching that currently has windows98 installed. I want linux to be the sole operating system so I was just going to let the installation automatically partition the drive. When I run autoboot from DOS, it begins the installation but after a few seconds it says: running sbin/loader and just hangs at that point. Any suggestions?

If you no longer want windows, I suggest formatting your hard drive first and getting rid of it before you install Linux. Although this is not necessary, it may clear up your problem. Another possibility is that sbin/loader takes quite some time before anything else is shown on the screen, at least with my 6.1 install. Try waiting a few minutes if you didn't give it much time before. Good luck!

My R.H. 6.2 was doing the same but was getting farther along Then started over and didn't get as far. It was my TORiSON 6X CD-ROM drive. It would get hot and stop. I have a Creative Labs 4X & Mitumi 40X that work fine. The TORiSON still hung after putting it back in after R.H. installation was over. So this one is not compatable with Linux. It still works fine in Micocrash Win 95. -------Tom

Either make the installation disk and boot with it OR if your cdrom drive is bootable change the boot sequence from bios to make it CDROM,blah,blah and reboot

I have a comp (P200MMX, 96MB RAM)that when installing Red Hat-based distros will sometimes hang when booting/installing from CD but will not hang with Debian or Debian-based Corel!! This is weird but it is repeatable. I can install in another comp and switch the hard drive into my problem comp and it will run fine (after reconfiguring X and the modem of course). Swapping CD drives does not change things. If all else fails this should help.