RedHat 9 install prob!

[Uncle Jim]

Hi,

On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 11:03:55AM -0500, Patrick Thurmond wrote:
>  
> Every time I boot up it gets to the media test screen which you can skip
> or test and I usually skip but I have done it both ways and I am trying
> to use the graphical install. If I do the graphical install then once I
> get past the media test screen the screen gives a little text and then
> throws up a black screen and doesn't go any further.
>  
> If I do a text install it does get past this black screen and lets me
> install it.

When I did an install (text) with "factory CDs" I found that if I asked
it to look for bad blocks it would find some and then refuse to install.
When I told it to not look for bad blocks it was happy and would install.
This happened on two different disk drives and two different machines.
I guess this means you shouldn't go looking for trouble.

> The copy of RH9 that I am using I downloaded as an ISO and burnt to a
> disc. I have downloaded it twice, once back in April (when it first came
> out) and once yesterday (in hopes I had a bad download or burn from the
> first one). But both CDs I burnt had the same problem. Any ideas as to
> why this is not going fully into the graphical install?

After you boot from the first CD, tell it "linux mediacheck" and it will
read your CDs and verify the md5sum against the md5sum embedded in the
ISO image.  This will let you know you have downloaded and burned good CDs.

--
Jim