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

[Carolyn Roberts]

I have Red Hat 7.2 and 7.3 cds if you would like copies

On 4/21/08, annewittke at infomagic.net <annewittke at infomagic.net> wrote:
>
> I tried running the other two WD diagnostics on my HD
> and they wouldn't run properly.  One wouldn't display
> the acceptance agreement, and the other one asked me
> to insert floppies.
>
>
>
> ------- Original Message -------
> >From    :
> annewittke at infomagic.net[mailto:annewittke at infomagic.net]
> Sent    : 4/20/2008 10:18:28 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 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
> _______________________________________________
> Luna mailing list
> Luna at lists.flaglug.org
> http://lists.flaglug.org/mailman/listinfo/luna
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Luna mailing list
> Luna at lists.flaglug.org
> http://lists.flaglug.org/mailman/listinfo/luna
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Luna mailing list
> Luna at lists.flaglug.org
> http://lists.flaglug.org/mailman/listinfo/luna
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.flaglug.org/pipermail/luna/attachments/20080421/34698990/attachment.html