I just purchased a Dell Otiplex GX270T (3.20GHz, P4, 800 FSB, 1 Gb Ram, DVD+RW drive). I tried to install Redhat 9.0, but the installer was unable to identify my hard drives. I have two 120GB SATA, 7200 RPM Hard Drives with Data Burst Cache. The installer asked if I wanted to add a driver, but I didn't see anything that would work. So after doing some research, I found out that the kernel in Redhat 9.0 didn't support SATA drives, I needed kernel version 2.4.22 or higher to support SATA. After digging around some more, I find out that Fedora supports SATA drives. I downloaded the iso's, checked the md5 sums, burned the CD's, and finally thought I'd jumped the last hurtle. It booted, asked which install to use, I hit enter for the graphical install, started loading and then I got th following:
Uncompressing Linux...
invalid compressed format (err=2)
--System halted
I then tried text install, but with the same result. Does anybody have any idea what's going on?
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Kent C. Kollasch
