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Redhat 8 Install Problems - Update

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SteelCityFan

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I am pretty new to Linux, but I have messed around with Redhat 7.3 and Mandrake.

I am trying to install Redhat 8.0 on my Dell Inspiron 8100. I got the ISO's from linuxiso.org, and burned them using nero and a Liteon 40x12x48 CDRW.


I first attempted to burn the ISO's at 24X. The Memorex media I had was reported to be able to handle the speed by smart burn. The end result here was that the Redhatt media check (in the install procedure) would freeze at 5%. I then decided to burn the ISO's at 12 or 8X. This time, they woudl all pass the RH8 media check, but the install would give me an error message in a popup window saying it could not load something to do wttih the install routine and sometimes it would kick me out to a text filled screen saying thigs like

(anaconda:104): "GnomeCanvas-CRITICAL **: file gnome-canvas-path-def.c: line 1142
(gnome_canvas_path_def_any_closed): assertion 'path != NULL' failed

(anaconda:104): "GnomeCanvas-CRITICAL **: file gnome-canvas-path-def.c: line 1142
(gnome_canvas_path_def_any_closed): assertion 'path != NULL' failed

(anaconda:104): "GnomeCanvas-CRITICAL **: file gnome-canvas-path-def.c: line 1142
(gnome_canvas_path_def_any_closed): assertion 'path != NULL' failed

intall exited abnormally
sending termination signals
sending kill signals... done
disabling swap
...
.
.
.
.
you may safely reboot your system.



I intially thought it was the brand of media even though I had no problems with it in the past, but that was with an older burner. I burned an ISO to a different brand (Fuji), and it worked. I thought I had it solved. Disk two was another brand (Maxwell), and when it was almost complete, the PC stopped loading. The HD stopped working, the CD stopped spinning, and it just sat there for about 10 minutes before I shut it off. I could move the mouse pointer, but that was all I could do.

I tried it again using the Disk one I had just gotten to work fine, and it kicked me out with the above information.


I really want to give RH8 a whirl, but this is extremely frustrating, and I am out of CDR's. I don't understand why a disk would work the first time and not the second, as well as all the other problems I am having.

Help!

 


OK, ISO's were fine. I tried to install off of a disk I gave a friend. It worked for him on 2 systems, so I knew the CD's were OK.


We Finally got it to install, but only under the bare default settings. We let RH8 do the partitions automatically, did not set up user accounts, used only the personal desktop, etc. It worked then, but that's it. We also turned off a DMA during install as per some instructions we found somewhere about getting 7.1 to install on a Inspiron. We are not usre if it was needed with this version though.

Does anyone have any ideas, or the option that is causing this?
 
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