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RH 5.0 and 5.1 both bail out during defaults installation. Installation with
no packages fails also.  Nothing on Dell site to help.  Note I did not try to
installing inside of 512M (or even 1024 cyl), just expect the BIOS to be on
the job for translation.

CPU    PII 233
HD     6.4 gig
CD     a DVD player, does CD duty as a NEC in some drivers (e.g., OS/2 warp)
Video  NeoMagic chipset, LCD 1024x768

Let me guess, it bails after it asks for the language and keyboard type???
Mine too.  And I'm running on a Dell Latitude LM P133.  I think it has to
do with the PCMCIA chipset.

Any advice from the knowledgeable masses would be GREATLY appreciated.

Chuck Ludwigsen
** Informix on Linux -- This Changes Everything **

Quote:> RH 5.0 and 5.1 both bail out during defaults installation. Installation
with
> no packages fails also.  Nothing on Dell site to help.  Note I did not
try to
> installing inside of 512M (or even 1024 cyl), just expect the BIOS to be
on
> the job for translation.

> CPU    PII 233
> HD     6.4 gig
> CD     a DVD player, does CD duty as a NEC in some drivers (e.g., OS/2
warp)
> Video  NeoMagic chipset, LCD 1024x768

I get all the way into the packages, and no matter which I choose It dies
off after 2-3 megs of installed files.  If I try and run it again it has a
failure initializing the RPM database, so that I can't make incremental
progress toward anything, I simply have to reformat the partitions to try
installing again with some twiddled parameters.

I finally even reformatted the hard disk, got OS/2 2.1 Boot Manger installed
(yes, even that went well compared to RH 5.x ), and put / root in the first
100M of the drive.  No damn help at all, it still refused to install.

I guess the good news is that I had this same problem on a K6/Asus mb system
with Red Hat 5.0, except in that case I managed to make little incremental
progress each tiome I installed, and finally got a bootable Linux system.

I've had good results with Slackware in the past, so I ordered June/July
InfoMagic Linux, hopefully I'll get somewhere with that!