Tran Posted December 29, 2002 Share Posted December 29, 2002 Ok I've got a problem here and this time it's not due to my lack of research. I decided to install RH and everything is going great. Great until I hit about 5 mins into the installation. The computer stops reading the disc and I'm basically screwed. Here is the last time it messed up: Package: ed-0.2-28 Size: 120Kb Summary: GNU line editor Stops at about: 5:40 seconds size already installed: 376 MB remaining time: 17 minutes I did a Media check when it asked me two and all the discs passed. It seems as though my cd-r stopped reading the disc and copying the files. I gave it 6 GB (out of my small 20 GB Har drive for testing purposes) of HD space but I wonder if it needs more? If so I might have to get rid of XP but I'd rather reinstall XP again instead of installing RedHat. Can anyone help me? I'm ready to get rid of XP for the sake of exploring different OS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mezz Posted December 29, 2002 Share Posted December 29, 2002 The problem must be with your CDs.. Have you let RedHat's cd check to scan on your CD when you boot into CD? If not, then you will need to verify the MD5 sums on your three ISO files to make sure they are fine. Also, it's good idea to disable your PnP (Play-n-Plug) in the BIOS. >> I gave it 6 GB (out of my small 20 GB Har drive for testing purposes) of HD space but I wonder if it needs more? Nah, that's plenty space for *nix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BxBoy Posted December 29, 2002 Share Posted December 29, 2002 RH8 takes about 4.x GB if you plan on installing EVERYTHING.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mezz Posted December 30, 2002 Share Posted December 30, 2002 RH8 takes about 4.x GB if you plan on installing EVERYTHING.. Really? I thought, last time I saw was lesser than 3gigs when I installed on my brother's laptop. I doubt, it's 4.x gigs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tran Posted December 30, 2002 Author Share Posted December 30, 2002 Don't worry, it's all good now. It wasn't the cd, it was the space (GB) I gave it. Anyway RedHat is pretty good right now, trying to adjust to the new feel. Fonts are nice as I was browsing aroung but does anyone know how to turn the anti-aliasing on for web content because mine looks wierd, not like Clear type (something like that) on XP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mezz Posted December 30, 2002 Share Posted December 30, 2002 It wasn't the cd, it was the space (GB) I gave it. What? Are you telling the truth, it was 6 gigs? I find that's hard to believe. Fonts are nice as I was browsing aroung but does anyone know how to turn the anti-aliasing on for web content because mine looks wierd, not like Clear type (something like that) on XP. There are too many topics about it, I highly recommend you to use the search function in here or read each topics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tran Posted December 30, 2002 Author Share Posted December 30, 2002 Hard to believe that it was 6 GB and didn't work or hard to believe that it 6 GB and should have been more? In any case everything has gone fine after I gave it more room to breathe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mezz Posted December 30, 2002 Share Posted December 30, 2002 My brother installed RedHat 8 on the family, which he gave it only has 4 gigs. He installed near everything and it's only use around 75% or 80% of space. It's good that you got it works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjordan2001 Posted December 30, 2002 Share Posted December 30, 2002 How much did you give each partition part (e.g. /, /var, /etc)? You probably didn't give one part enough and gave too much to another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tran Posted December 30, 2002 Author Share Posted December 30, 2002 Well I think I gave to much to XP that's why. In any case I've got more problems. 1 - When I tried to install truetype fonts in the root directory (right?) I can't. Even after I logged on with admin privileges I can't. Can someone help me? 2 - For some reason my mp3s won't work on xmms so I need help there... any way I know this might seem simple some I'm working on this (2) now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prasanth Posted December 30, 2002 Share Posted December 30, 2002 Well I think I gave to much to XP that's why. In any case I've got more problems. 1 - When I tried to install truetype fonts in the root directory (right?) I can't. Even after I logged on with admin privileges I can't. Can someone help me? 2 - For some reason my mp3s won't work on xmms so I need help there... any way I know this might seem simple some I'm working on this (2) now. 1. Create a .fonts dir in your home dir eg: /home/panorama/.fonts if you log in as root its /root/.fonts mkdir is the command to make a dir after you make the directory copy the ttf fonts to it, reboot and that it :) 2. You need to download the mp3 plugin seperately http://staff.xmms.org/priv/redhat8/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linux2 Posted December 30, 2002 Share Posted December 30, 2002 Well I think I gave to much to XP that's why. In any case I've got more problems. 1 - When I tried to install truetype fonts in the root directory (right?) I can't. Even after I logged on with admin privileges I can't. Can someone help me? 2 - For some reason my mp3s won't work on xmms so I need help there... any way I know this might seem simple some I'm working on this (2) now. Out of the box only KDE's browser/file manager Konqueror supports Anti-aliased fonts. RH 8 has a font installer. Use it. It will update the neccesary links and font cache. RH8 does not support MP3 playing. You need to do a search on Google to find the documentation to enable MP3 playback. Basically it involves installing some additional libraries. BTW, there is no way that a 6 gig partition would have caused the install to pause or terminate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tran Posted December 30, 2002 Author Share Posted December 30, 2002 Well it happened and it stopped installing but that's over now. Thanks for the help Prasanth :) Now I can listent omy music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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