Red Hat 4.0 Install Problem

[rodney at sabletech.com (Rodney Thayer)]

My answer is "that's what you get for using Red Hat".  Some RHL out there
got a better answer? (Red Hat lover...)

At 07:21 AM 1/15/97 +0500, you wrote:
>I need some assistance, and can not attend InstallFest this weekend.
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>Equipment:  
>AMD586-133 CPU, 16 Meg RAM, 428 Meg HDD, Adtapi compatible CD-Rom, 3.5 &
>5.25 Floppy's, AVGA2 Video 256K, Serial Mouse, 14.4 Internal Modem, Ether16
>LAN card (Linksys).  **Not on a network, that is for future expansion in
>house**
>
>Background:
>Partitioned Hard Drive for a primary of 25Meg to use MS/Dos 6.22 on.  That
>worked fine and booted from "C:" prompt with no problem.  Made Red-Hat 4.0
>image disk with RAWRITE to "A:" drive with no problem.  Installed Red Hat
>4.0 from CD, making two partition 385 Meg hda2 as type 83, and 18 Meg hda3
>as type 82.  All went fine.  
>
>Rebooted system, and at LOADLIN I typed in "Linux" and Red Hat Linux
>loaded.  I could login and go in and look around, decided not to setup
>X-Win at this time.  Brainstorm hit me (Oops! problem #1, I should of known
>better) so I said why not make this machine a complete Linux machine.  I
>mean that only makes sense, seeing as though I want to learn Linux.
>
>So I FDISK'ed and got rid of the two Linux hda2 & hda3, then deleted hda1
>also, did a "P" and all was gone.  Then I loaded MS-Dos from a floppy and
>did also an FDISK with DOS to ensure that everything was gone, which it
>was.  Hey this is going to be easy.
>
>Now Help:
>I installed the IMAGE Red Hat disk and booted the system.  The Red Hat
>install program came up.  I re partitioned the hard disk into hda1 (410
>Meg, type 83) and hda2 into (18 Meg, type 82) just like before, and did a
>"W" command.  Continued through the install and selected the programs I did
>as before (almost all of them).  The install started fine, and said that
>there was something like 194 Meg to install, no problem, I have the space.
>The install gets through about 180-185 Meg then it decides to reboot the
>computer.  Huh!
>
>I go through the complete procedure and steps again.  Install gets to about
>the same point, and guess what.  REBOOT.
>
>So I saw what the heck, I'll do this one more time.  Get's to about the
>same point and REBOOT.  HELP!!!
>
>Ok!  I want to learn Linux, so I decide to try my 5-CD set of Slackware.  I
>make the two IMAGE disks needed.  Do FDISK, then SETUP, and Configure.
>Reboot the system, and Linux comes up.  Login to "ROOT" do some snooping
>around (I love CLI) things look good.  I'm a novice at this Linux, so
>anything might look right.  I type in PINE, TIN, VI they all seem to work
>fine.  I even got DOOM game to come up.  I tried X-Win, but as I didn't
>configure it, I knew it wouldn't make it.  No surprise when I got an error.
> So I said Ok, SLACKWARE works, but I want "RED HAT 4.0" as it was
>recommended to me. (Oops! is the this going to be Problem #2)
>
>So last night I said what the heck, I'm going to "TRY" and reinstall RED
>HAT 4.0 on the machine.  Well I started from scratch, redid the FDISK,
>etc...  It got to about the same 180-185 Meg installed part, and REBOOTED.  
>
>ANY IDEAS???
>
>Thanks in advance.  I can be reached through this list, or at jbr at star.net.
>
>                                  Have a nice day,
>                                     Take care,
>                                          Barry...
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>For 93 million miles, there is nothing between the sun and my shadow except
>me.  I'm always getting in the way of something...
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