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<P>I spent three weeks several days of those three weeks were spent overnight (24 hr) attempting to install RH and another Linux brand. I found the requirements defined on the RH package to be bogus. I was told by RH support that RH has an agressive install and that my PC may not be good enough. It was a PIII, 500mhx with 700+k of ram and 80gig drive. What happend with me the install would fail on random packages. I tried every thing and could not get a clean install. I finally bought a new P4 3.0ghz with 1meg ram and 80gig drive the install took less than 10min to do a full install.</P>
<P>Its running no problems with the new machine.</P>
<P>james</P>
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<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">-------------- Original message -------------- <BR><BR>> Well, this is about the fifth different time I've <BR>> tried to install Linux, and none ever went worth a <BR>> damn, including this one. Here's the story; I'm <BR>> trying to evaluate the Red Hat Enterprise 3 desktop <BR>> for home evaluation. I downloaded all 4 CD ISOs from <BR>> www.redhat.com, burnt them successfully, and checked <BR>> them with the data-checking CD program at the <BR>> beginning of my Red Hat install, and all checked out <BR>> OK. So, as I perform the install (by simply hitting <BR>> "Enter" at the beginning of said install), I get the <BR>> following on my desktop: <BR>> <BR>> Running Anaconda...please wait <BR>> <BR>> It finds the Video Card Radeon 9600 <BR>> the Monitor Syncmaster <BR>> & Mouse Generic Mouse <BR>> <BR>> ---then the screen eventual!
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