On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Hemstreet, Jeffrey wrote:
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 18:25:44 -0400 From: "Hemstreet, Jeffrey" <jhemstreet@avaya.com> Reply-To: wlug@mail.wlug.org To: "'wlug@mail.wlug.org'" <wlug@mail.wlug.org> Subject: [Wlug] Installing Redhat on HP machines
I am having a problem installing Redhat 7.2 on 2 different HP machines. I thought I might be able to get some information from the plethera of people who have done installs. Or any ideas on what to do next?
One is an HP Vectra (2Gb IDE, 56MB, P200). I can fdisk and select packages, but when it goes to format the disk to install the packages, I get a signal 11 fatal error. I think there may be something flaky with this system (HDD or memory problem?) Just wondering if anyone else has seen this type of failure and could give me any more insight. I plan on replacing the HDD to see if that is the problem.
The other is a dual-300 PII HP Kayak with a SCSI Drive. I get a boot error when trying to boot from the CDROM or Install Disk. This system is currently running NT 5. Any ideas why the boot would fail?
Thanks, jeff
Jeff, I had a problem that sounds similar when installing on a Data General Aviion (old, slow) machine. I was using one of the standard (server?) installs. I tried a "custom" install, and everything went smoothly. Bill