[Ghosts]

Hi im having problems starting the installation it goes into the installation screen but doesnt show anything even when doing text mode and different commands

[Squashman]

Why are you installing RedHat 9?

[Ghosts]

Because I have 3 cds for it :P

[lynch]

What are you installing it on?
lynch

[Ghosts]

a cyber power system:
Amd Athlon 64 3500+
1GB (2x512) corsair xms pro dual channel ddr400 pc3200 memory
Ati X800XL 256mb pci-express graphics card
Sound Blaster live 24-bit sound card
160GB Western Digital HDD

[Krelian]

Possibly a bad burned CD? Where did you get them?

[lynch]

Your hardware is newer than your distribution of Red Hat. Red Hat cant support hardware that did'nt exist when it was released. There are up-to-date versions of Linux that supports that hardware.
lynch

[Ghosts]

Thanks for the help that crossed my mind but I wasnt sure

[Squashman]

That is kind of what I was getting at in my first post. You have an Athlon 64. Why not use an OS that can use its full potential. Red Hat 9 is 4 versions of Red Hat behind. Fedora Core 4 is out now.

OpenSuSE is up and going now or Fedora if you want to keep using RedHat products.

http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/We...o_openSUSE.org
http://fedora.redhat.com/

[Ghosts]

Yea I was eventually gonna go to fedora and now it looks like i have to lol

[Ghosts]

I just bought fedora core 4 on ebay for 25 cents brand new dvd version since im too lazy to dl it even with my cable connection lol

[saikee]

The answer to the original post can be as simple as

"Red Hat 9 was expecting PS2 keyboard and PS2 mouse. If a usb keyboard or mouse was used Red Hat 9 installer Anaconda may not have been configured for it".

Happened to me before. Just change to the PS2 equipment to get by.

There is nothing wrong to install as many Linux as the hdd can store them. RH9 needs less than 5Gb.

[Ghosts]

yea and hmm i never thought about that i got some converter plugs ill try it thanks