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Mauro Prencipe wrote:

> Hi,
> 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!
> 
> Mauro Prencipe
> 
> "Steven Taylor" <sataylor@runbox.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
> news:FFgN9.2196$YN6.4333@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
>> My first attempt at installing Linux (Red hat 8) hasn't gone very well.
>>
>> My system, Athlon 2000+ (1.7GHz), 512 Mb Ram, 64 mb Nvidia GeForce4 MX440
>> video card, 2 Hard drives each 80 G (Seagate).
>>
>> Booting from the installation CD worked, I initially selected 'Graphical'
>> which merely took me to a blue screen and froze.   Subsequent attempts I
>> selected 'Linux Text' ....noprobe.....lowres....
>>
>> Ok I got lost with which option I selected to eventually show me a CD
> Media
>> tester.   The result of the CD media tester failed (was the installation
> CD)
>> placed another CD in machine that failed the test.
>>
>> Couldn't get any further.
>>
>> I'm now thinking of copying the 3 installation CD's to my C:\ drive and
> then
>> installing from the hard-drive to my D:\ drive.
>>
>> What are my options now.......Am I missing something really simple here.
>>
>> Steven Taylor
>> Melbourne, Australia.
>>
>>
>>
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>>

RH8 has some real problems.
Get RH7.3 or try Mandrake 9.0 or Suse 8/8.1