DanJo

Hi It's me again, I seem to have really "Phuked" things up now.... After doing a clean install on a borrowed HDD, things worked just fine with a few minor Sound Card and Linksys problems, I decided to go back and retry the dual boot scenario(which I had successfully done on a friends Dell Dimension). Yes I know - STUPID. If it works leave it alone...but I had to give back the borrowed HDD. The original HDD was a dual boot Win 2000/XP on C and D respectively. I quite stupidly Partition Magic'd C into two EXT3 partions, rebooted the PC with a RH9 boot diskette and everything worked fine until it didn't recognise the CD's again.. I don't understand why with my installation that the CD's are not found when they do work on another almost identicle base system and worked on a clean HDD install? Could this be a bios problem. There doesn't seem to be any info from Dell. The problem I now have is that I have two empty EXT3 Partitions followed by an NTFS partition with XP on which of course no longer boots ...... I thought about doing an NFS install but couldn't remember my IP address and of course hadn't written it down. Can I stick in any address or is it possible to find it back? Alternaively would it be possible to access the original ISO files on the NTFS partition? If so, how do I navigate to the file location. I know, pretty lame, but lets say I'm just learning the hard way...

Cooking with Gas! Thanks for the advice but I was a little too impatient...I used a third HDD, formatted using PM and the install worked first time.I just need to check if everything is working as it should. I'll delete the swap file and start playing tonight. What I have seen so far is very impressive and fast. Hopefully within a few days, it's gonna be bye bye Billy! Thanks for the support, and I'll let you know how I get on.. Groetjes van Belgie....

Thanks for the quick response... I downloaded three Shrike ISO's from linux.org? and burnt them directly to CD using Nero 6.3 @ 4x. I did the MD5SUM check and also checked the media via the option in the install program. I think that one problem is maybe due to the fact that I was a little enthusiastic and have not read all the gumf beore going ahead with the installation attempt. I have since read that NTFS format is not preffered and that I need two partitions available for Linux.. I have made only two partitions (in NTFS format), one with XP on and the other was to be for Redhat...so this needs to be changed? I have also read that it maybe better to use the DOSUTILS to burn the three CD's and a seperate boot CD? Any advice with the correct approach would be sincerely appreciated.. I have a DELL dimension 8000 (Pent IV-1.7Ghz) 2x60 GB HDD (both with two NTFS partions) 512mb RAM Terratec EWS MT88 Sound Card with breakout box DVD-RW DVD-ROM 3.5 FDD 256 mb Graphics card

Hi, I am unfortunately running XP and wish to create a dual boot system with RH 9. I've downloaded the Shrike ISO's and burn't them to CD however, during the install process the installation program asks for the Redhat CD? Is there a Step by Step "idiots guide" for installing Redhat which covers all the steps that need to be done, including what needs to be partitioned and how? Maybe I'm too far gone to be rescued from the MS syndrome? Help me please....