Red Hat 4.0 Install Problem

[mikebw at bilow.bilow.uu.ids.net (Mike Bilow)]

Barry Ryan wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:

 BR> Equipment:  
 BR> AMD586-133 CPU, 16 Meg RAM, 428 Meg HDD, Adtapi compatible
 BR> CD-Rom, 3.5 & 5.25 Floppy's, AVGA2 Video 256K, Serial Mouse,
 BR> 14.4 Internal Modem, Ether16 LAN card (Linksys).  **Not on a
 BR> network, that is for future expansion in house**

Pull the Ethernet card out and try again.  The install should succeed.  If you
want to put the Ethernet card back in after installing, make sure the card is
terminated (if coax) and you may need to specify card parameters to lilo. 
(Note that terminating an unconnected Ethernet card requires a tee connector
with two terminating blanks.)

I suspect that your problem is during the boot process where Linux tries to
probe hardware, such as Ethernet cards, to detect their presence automatically.
 
-- Mike