I am installing Red Hat Linux 7 on my PC which is currently running Windoze ME. I have a second hard drive (Western Digital) 40Gb that I want to install Linux on. Windoze is on the primary drive and I will put LILO there. When I start the installer, hit ENTER, the installer begins to load, identifies all my devices correctly, and then freezes at the message:
running sbin/loader
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The cursor just sits there and blinks and nothing every happens. I have tried a lot of stuff already such as: partioning the new drive with micro$oft fdisk, creating DOS partions, etc. But nothing works.
What could be causing the system to lock up during install? Is there some special format the destination hard drive should be in? I thought Linux allows you to format the harddrive during installation. Should I have the destination drive formatted? Maybe this isn't even the problem. Any help and suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
My system configuration is as follows:
Compaq Presario 7000T
Intel Pentium III 800MHz
Primary IDE 0 : Maxtor 40Gb, 7200RPM Hard drive
Primary IDE 1 : West Dig 40Gb, 7200RPM Hard drive
Secondary IDE 0: DVD
Secondary IDE 1: CD R/RW
AGP TNT 2 Graphics card
PCI Modem
USB Keyboard
Soundblaster Live PCI Sound Card
I can provide other details if you need them to figure out the problem.
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