So I got tired of bad downloads that never worked and decided to order redhat 9 from linuxcd.org. I try to install it and the first time it had an error right after formatting and before beginning the installation. After trying it about 10 times half had the error, a few exited about halfway through the install, and then I tried the minimal install and it went all the way through but wouldn't boot. After trying almost close to 10 distros I have only gotten one to install and that was lycoris. But I would really like to get redhat 9 to boot. I have 3 theories:1. according to the knoppix live cd my computer is i686, what is the difference between all the 86's? I tried arch linux which is optimized for the i686, but I could not get it to run the setup and it wasn't doing what the documentation said it was supposed to do. The md5sums matched perfectly. 2. The hard drive I have been trying to install on is secondary slave and I thought maybe it had to be primary master. 3. Maybe I'm not burning it right or nero is messed up. I do the burn as image but right before you tell it to burn I noticed a box that says create as image. Maybe I am supposed to check that.
So if anyone can help I'd like to know the diff. between the 86's, whether or not the hd has to be the primary master, and if i'm supposed to check the box on nero.
One other quick question. Will i have to change the setup if I switch the cables and make the hd the primary master.
I appreciate any thoughts anyone has.
thanks for replies.
h3r3tic