Donna writes:
> so, i have this old ibm, pentium pro pc....  it used to have
> nt installed on it (which i don't care about....) and i'm
> trying to install rh7.2.  i'm on my 3rd attempt....and i'm
> not holding my breath about this one working either.  during
> the boot process, the system will eventually say it's got a
> problem with the hard drive.

How far does the install get?

> (btw, i really don't want to have to boot from
> diskette....)

It's actually not that bad if the only problem is that you can't/don't want
to install the Linux bootloader (generally only if you're dual booting and
don't want to affect the original OS at all).  The boot floppy simply has
the boot loader and the kernel on it.  Once it's loaded from floppy, the
rest of the boot sequence happens just as though the kernel got loaded form
disk.

G.

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