Linix Installation Problem

[SpiderElls82]

Greetings,
I'm attempting to install Red Hat 7.1 onto a laptop. The laptop is a pentium with 400MHz and a 3.5 gig hd. I can get all the way through the installation up until it bring up the formating of the hard drive. It gives me the following error: "An error occured transferring the install image to your hard drive. You are probably out of disk space." The total size of the installation for 7.1 is 1.56GB w/ the packages I've selected. The hard drive is 3.5GB. Is it possible this error is being caused by a bad sector. If this is the case, could any of you recommend any scandisk programs that I would be able to slap on a floppy and analyse the HD of the laptop? Thank in advance...Ben

 

[imryn]

Ben,

I would first check the cd and make sure nothing is corrupted on the disk, it has happened. Next, I think I would try to install the basic version for the laptop, and see if that works. As far as a bad sector I have no idea. I have Fedora Core 4 on a Pentium 2 Laptop... heheh... it runs a little on the slow side, but it works well. I did have a 5 GB HD on it and it does well. I think it's safe to assume that it's either the CD or HD. You could try loading something else on it to test the HD like windows or something.

imryn

 

[SpiderElls82]

Thanks imryn.
Turns out it was a hd problem. I've since replaced it and it seems to go through the install ok up to a certain point (when it tries to copy the infinity media player to the hard drive), though I'm confident it will load eventually...after a few hundred more attempts at the install. Thanks for the advice.

Ben