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Redhat 9, 8 hang up on install

Asked by klukac in Miscellaneous Hardware, Hardware Components

I'm trying to install RH9 on a pc on my home network.  I've done a media check from the options screen, but cdrom installation still hangs up in several places.  At first I couldn't get past the RH opening screen: it would load vmlinuz and initrd.img and hang up at "ready."

Thru persistance I was able to open the options screen, and from there it was easier to boot.  I often get as far as /sbin/loader, then it hangs up (if I leave it running it prints out gibberish that looks like an attempt at an error message, like "interrupt unknown").
A couple of times I got as far as "Running anaconda, the Red Hat Linux system installer, please wait..."  Finally gave up waiting and shut down.

Tried installing RH8, which I have a DVD for, from the same pc, with the same results.  I've tried with most of the install options: noprobe, skipddc (I'm running a single monitor off a KVM switch), lowres, text, doesn't matter.

I intend to use this pc only as a firewall, so all it has is a 8.25 GB HDD with a DOS-formatted partition.  The motherboard is an Intel 633 ATX w/ Celeron CPU, and the memory checks out on boot as 327680k, or 320 MB, so all should be ok.  

Tested two cdrom drives + my dvd drive, tested both IDE connections on the motherboard (separate from the HDD and then connected as a slave to the HDD).  The only thing I haven't done is copy the media, which I thought was unnecessary since they passed the media check.

I have RH8 installed and running on another machine on my home network, so I'm stumped :(

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