RH 5.2 Install dies...

[lamorric]

I bought a CD of RH 5.2 a while back and finaly got around to installing it. The PC I wanted to install it to is a 486 SX 30 MHx, ugh. It has 8 MB RAM, and about 100 MB of disk. The machine currently has MS-DOS 5.0. It is old and I don't care what happens to it.<br><br>I created the bootable disk, and tried to do the install. Things go great for a minute and then it hangs. This is the screen output.<br><br>Loading initrd.img<br>Loading vmlinuz<br>Uncompressing linux ... done.<br>Now booting the kernel<br>Memory: sized by int13 088h<br>Console: 16 pt font, 400 scans<br>Console: colour VGA+ 80 x 25,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1 virtual console (max 63)<br>pci_init: no bios32 detected.<br>&lt; this is where it hangs &gt;<br><br>I tried to install it on another PC with the same boot disk, and all went well.<br><br>Can someone give me an idea of why this doorstop of a PC won't work with the installation program? I tried installing from the hard drive and CD with the same results.<br><br>Is there a way I can install the stuff manually? I still have it on the other PC.<br><br>TIA

 

[h0g]

Sounds like the RedHat installer requires a 32-bit BIOS (a PCI BIOS?) to install.&nbsp;&nbsp;Considering the age of your machine, this may be the case.<br><br>RedHat seems to aim its distrobution at new machines and IT (or the special RHCE folk).<br><br>Hope that helps.

 

[lamorric]

Thanks for the response. I was worried that no one would look at it.<br><br>From what I have read, I don't believe this is the case. I have heard and read about people installing it on 386's before.<br><br>In the installation docs there is something about turning off the pci probing, and I tried it. But I am not sure I got it right because it certainly didn't work.