Red Hat install problem

[Spydermag68]

I downloaded Rad Hat 8.0, the CDs check out fine, and the install seemed to progress just fine. I rebooted my computer and I get a message
"hda: Bad CRC"

I have reformatted the HD in my windows machine and it works fine.

RH Machine:
P ][ 233
128 megs sdram
Diamond Viper ][ video
3Com 10/100

 

[n0cmonkey]

Is there a "super duper" hard drive formatting option in RH? If so, you might want to try it.

 

[Spydermag68]

The drive that I am using had Win98 on it before I started the install. I had RH remove all partitions and start from scratch.

I also installed the "Workstation" version since I wanted the programming tools installed.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Spydermag68
The drive that I am using had Win98 on it before I started the install. I had RH remove all partitions and start from scratch.

I also installed the "Workstation" version since I wanted the programming tools installed.

Ok. See if there is an option to check the drive in the RH install. If there is, try it and see what happens.

 

[Spydermag68]

During the install I did not see anything to check and see the drive has any bad sectors. I might just try another install in the morning.

 

[Tiger]

Did you format the drive for the Linux filesystem?

 

[Armitage]

Originally posted by: Spydermag68
During the install I did not see anything to check and see the drive has any bad sectors. I might just try another install in the morning.

I think what n0c is trying to suggest is a "bad block" check on formatting the partitions. You should see a check box somewhere in the partitioning process asking about this ... might even be a seperate screen in the install process. I don't remember.

Are you partiioning manually, or letting RedHat do it automatically? If the latter, that might explain why you haven't seen the option. I've never done it that way though.

 

[Spydermag68]

I have been letting RH do all of the work since this is my first Linux install. I'll try doing the partitioning myself and see if that works better.

thanks.

 

[Abzstrak]

could be a bad ide cable too