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I usualy don't comment on such postings, but in this case...

I have been installing Red Hat since 5.1 as a server OS, with no GUI. I
have installed every version MANY times each: 5.1, 5.2, 6.0, 6.1, 6.2,
7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.0 and I have NEVER had an installation problem on
any version so far. I have used 7.3 as a workstation and now I have Red
Hat 8 and am using it at both work and home at a workstation. I have
installed it some 10-15 times so far on PCs at work and have never had a
problem. The PCs are a varied range of Duron, Athlon and Celeron based
systems in a whole lot of configurations, with SCSI and IDE HD, CD and
CDRW drives, SCSI DAT drives, PCI and AGP video cards, Intel, 3com,
Realtek ethernet cards etc etc. I have not had a problem with ANY
installation at all. However, I nearly always use the text installer and
not the GUI, but I have used the GUI a few times, still with no problem.

I have had a couple of post-installation issues with sound drivers etc,
but nothing that has ever crippled the OS.  

The PCs are just locally assembled with no particular reference to the
Hardware Compatibility List. I only use good quality components though,
like ASUS or MSI motherboards etc.

So I am confused as to the problems that you have mentioned, as this is
contrary to my own experience. Perhaps you need to consult the HCL and see
if your hardware is supported.

Regards,
Brad

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On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 21:49:10 +0000, wil wrote:

> 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