RaTeD-R Posted June 10, 2002 Posted June 10, 2002 sorry to be a pain, but I just want to know what to expect b4 i get started. What your saying is that Linux will format the hd for me? There is nothing currently on my old HD I want to save, so reformatting is no biggie. I have windows 3.1 installed on that drive also, will I have to uninstall that? I no longer need it, I only want Linux on that comp. Just trying to get a few things cleared up, thanks again. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
red930 Posted June 10, 2002 Posted June 10, 2002 yeah linux install can format the drive(s) for you. it doesnt matter whats on the drive, cause linux will format it u dont have to uninstall windows because the drive will be formatted before linux installs itself to the drive. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaTeD-R Posted June 10, 2002 Posted June 10, 2002 Schweeet. Thanks again. Ill let you know how everything went, I expect SOMETHING to go wrong, or else it wouldn't be a computer. ??? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaTeD-R Posted June 24, 2002 Posted June 24, 2002 ANd here I am a few weeks later to confirm that, of course, something went wrong. The install process was going great, I couldn't install using a GUI because of lack of memory, but thats alright. After a few minutes of installing off the 2nd cd error however, some file was missing or corrupted. Its either from a bad download, scratched cd, or just a faulty program.....I don't know. I am going to redownload the .iso and put it on 3 diffrent cd's. I hope then it works. The thing that pisses me off, is the file froze the whole install process!! I had every option checked when it asked me what I wanted to install. So the file that was missing probably was something that wasn't essential to Linux. The only option I had was to press OK, which brought me back to the same screen. I hit f12 for the next screen, I hit ctrl-c and a bunch of other keys.....the program was just caught in a loop. The cd-rom I am using for that box is only a 10x I believe. It's gonna take a good hour to install. And wasting that 30 minutes and then having it freeze really sucked. So my first experience w/ Linux isn't a good one, but it's not Linux's fault. It's just my luck. I'll post again, hopefully w/ good news and no questions. I hope this works........ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaTeD-R Posted June 26, 2002 Posted June 26, 2002 Alright, I'm gonna check around some FTP's tonight, but that ftp://andromeda.acs.uci.edu/mirrors/redha....3-en/iso/i386/ site has a messed up #2 .iso. I went back to that site, redownloaded the 3 iso's and reburnt 3 cd's. I still got the same error, on the 2nd cd, just like the first time I tryed installing. I get the error "the file /mnt/source/RedHat/RPMS/SDL_net-12.3-2.i386.rpm cannot be opened. This is due to a missing file, a bad package, or bad media. Press return and try again".......then I press return and I'm caught in the same loop. This has to be a bad .iso. If you can recommend any other ftp's that be great, or if you think its a completly diffrent problem all together let me know what you think I should do. I hate computers......I'm freaking cursed. Everytime I go to do something it screws up, nothing ever goes like it should. I'll check back in later w/ my findings. Thanks. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
d3bruts1d Posted June 26, 2002 Posted June 26, 2002 If I can figure out how to set up my FTP server, I can |-|00| Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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