installation problems 1115

finder Red Hat Linux 9 is obsolete and unsupported, so it seems a poor choice for a new installation. If you want a distribution like that, I suggest you try something like Fedora Core 5 (or whatever the latest stable version of that is). I do not use Fedora myself, but it seems to me it is quite suitable for normal home desktop use. Of course there are pbuttionate defenders of almost any distribution. I use Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and CentOS Linux on my machines and I find them quite good. RHEL is expensive. But I do not think they make sense for a beginning user for casual desktop use. They are more stable than the Fedora versions, however, and that may be important to some.

Since lots of people installed RHL 9, however, including me on several different machines, you should not have had trouble with finding module dependencies. It does take a while to run this step, however, so if yours is a slow machine, you may just have to be patient. I put it on a Pentium 166MHz machine and it took several minutes for that step, IIRC.

When installing, depending on just how far you got, you might try looking invar-log-messages andvar-log-dmesg to get a clue as to what the trouble is. This presumes, of course, that you have some means of looking at the disk(s) at all. If you already have some other version of Linux on the machine, or have something like Ubuntu on a CD-ROM, this might be usable for this.

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