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Mauro Prencipe <mauro.prencipe@tiscali.it> wrote:

> to avoid you a lot of time lost in such attempts...
> I've the same problem (I also have an Athlon), and I was not able to install
> R8.0 (I was able to install R7.0, instead).
> 
> I ask to the whole World, but the anwers didn't solve anything. The guys of
> the RedHat support adviced to me a lot of "undocumented" options to be
> passed at the boot prompt, but none of them proved to be useful. At last I
> returned to my old R7.0. My regret concern the money I spent to buy the
> RedHat package!

in the past i've had so many similar problems trying to install redhat,
it's just not funny! however, i had no problems at all installing rh7.3
recently. i certainly wouldn't even think about trying to use rh8.0 (or
rh7.0!). i'll wait till at least 8.2 or maybe 8.3 before i think about
upgrading my home 7.3 system. the two servers i look after at the
local community radio station run rh7.2 with a few security updates etc, 
and they're unlikely to get upgraded to 8.anything in the forseeable 
future.

however, if you'd rather be using 8.0 than your current 7.0, why not use 
the 8.0 installation cds to *upgrade*? you ought to be able to do that, 
even if you can't install from scratch.

and, to the original poster: it's definitely worth a try copying the 
contents of the cds onto another partition, but before you do that, make a 
boot floppy (and a root floppy? i dunno how it works with rh8.) and try 
and boot from those and get the install started. if you get to the stage 
where it wants the source packages, then it's worth copying the cds to 
your hdd. if you can't get it to that stage by booting from floppy, then 
you'll be wasting your time. rh8.1 is out now, it probably makes more 
sense to install that anyway.

good luck!
will

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