[Luna] trying to install red hat on a used computer, and having problems

[annewittke at infomagic.net]

I downloaded ultimate boot and ran a hard disk
diagnostic (the first one listed for the Western
Digital drive, since that's what I have), and it did
not find any problem with the hard drive.  Should I
run the other two diagnostics packages as well?
Since it doesn't appear to be the hard drive, it must
have been the redhat 7.2 cd.  Does anyone have the
redhat 5.2 version on cd?  Or even the 7.2 version?
I'm downloading Fedora 9 right now but I have no idea
how similar that is to the redhat version.  I'm
trying to duplicate a red 5.2 system since that's
what I'll be developing for.
-Anne

------- Original Message -------
>From    : Nathan[mailto:nathan at paysonlinux.org]
Sent    : 4/20/2008 6:05:42 PM
To      : luna at lists.flaglug.org
Cc      : 
Subject : RE: Re: [Luna] trying to install red hat on
a used computer,and having problems

  I believe when you boot it, and the very first
screen comes up that lets you 
select if you want the graphical or the safe
installation, you type something 
in there. Try pressing F1 or F2 and see if the screen
changes. Somewhere it 
will say 'check media' or 'test media'.

OR, once you boot into the basic installer, before it
tries to install 
packages it will have an option test verify the media.

Being 7.2 it may be just old enough that it does not
have any of this. In 
which case you may need to run md5sum against the
disc in windows and compare 
it to the md5 red hat has for 7.2. But this is beyond
me. I'm not a windows 
guy.

Nathan
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