I started my adventure of installing RH Linux 7.3 after being advised that my 6.2 system had been hacked and needed to be re-installed from scratch.
I decided to look at 7.3 on another box that was running Linux 7.1. I purchased two separate sets of Linux 7.3. Couldn't get the Redhat production disks and relied on two books. Red Hat Linux 7.3 Bible and Red Hat Linux 7.3 Secrets. Turned out the media was bad in the Bible version after two install attempts that aborted half way through, I did a media check. The secrets version wouldn't even boot from the CD. So much for that. I then turned back and reinstalled 7.1. Lo and behold, 7.1 won't recognize my NIC card (3Com Etherlink III) even though the install manual says this is a card that is automatically probed and discovered. I then tried installing in expert mode, The manual describes the process as being presented with a screen that asks for driver disks. (There are no Linux driver disks for this card that I know of). The manual says to answer no to this question and you will be presented with the option to add a device, to choose network and then select the card from this list presented. This didn't happen. What's funny (or not so funny) is that this computer had 7.1 running on it. It was installed and over wrote a windows 98 system running on it. There was no problem installing 7.1 then. These problems only occurred after Linux 7.1 had been running on the system and the disks were reformatted using Disk Druid. This begs the question: Do you have to have Windows running on a system in order to install Red Hat Linux? How ironic can you get. After all of these travails, I decided to repartition using fdisc. I deleted the (3) partitions hda1, extended and <swap>. Then I added two partions (I was given a choice of extended or primary) for each addtion. I put in the stop and stop cylinders exactly as Disk Druid and fdisc had shown them. Disk Druid only showed two partitions, fdisk showed three. DD only showed hda1 and <swap> while fdisc showed hda1, extended and <swap>. I wrote the changes and fdisc barked that there was a partition 0 that must have been put on by another operating system.(what is that? When I installed the 7.1 over Windows I asked for the entire disk to be partitioned for Linux. No dual operating system) Here is my current plan of attack. Use DOS (can you believe it?) to fdisk the hard drive and set up one big partition. Then format that partition. This may only get me so far though. I still have to worry about the install seeing my network card. Does anyone have another idea about how to fix this? So far I've spent way too much time fooling around with this. Maybe Microsoft was right. You can get a dog free at the pound, but you still have to feed it. Ernie -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
