Red Hat Installation Problems on 160GB Hard Drive

From: Jeff Krimmel (madscientist03_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 01/31/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 15:55:12 -0800

Greetings,

I am having problems installing Red Hat (both version 9 and 8) on a 160GB
hard drive I have. I originally bought a Maxtor and had Red Hat balk that
there was an "Error Installing Package". A couple of times that package
was the kernel, one time it was glibc, and it has been other packages
other times.

So, I returned the Maxtor hard drive (because one of the descriptions in
the error dialog was that it could be a hardware problem, and I have used
both sets of Red Hat CDs to make successful installations in the past) and
bought a Western Digital drive (still 160GB). I tried installing Red Hat 9
again just now, and I received the same error (but with a new package).

What are my options at this point? I let the installation routine do all
of the paritioning automatically, but should I do this manually and not
use the whole 160GB? That would be a bit disappointing, but I really need
to get Linux up and running at this point.

Thanks for the help,

Jeff

P.S. I also tried to install Mandrake 9.1 on the new Western Digital
drive, and it balked at not being able to install glibc and a couple of
other packages as well. So, I don't think it's distribution specific. 

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