Not able to install Redhat 8.0 - Network Card is 3c515

I am trying to install RedHat 8.0 on a Pentium 100 Mhz machine. So far I am not having too good of luck. Here are the specs of the machine.

Zeos Pantera
Pentium 100
BusLogic SCSI Card
NEC SCSI CDROM
2.5 Maxtor IDE drive
32 MB RAM
3c515 Ethernet Card (2)

I am having problems with the installation when it needs a driver disk. If I try to do a network installation it needs a driver disk for the 3c515 ethernet card.

These are the errors messages that I get during the installation.

"Failed to mount driver disk."
"The floppy disk you inserted is not a valid driver disk for this release of Red Hat Linux."

Can someone get me feedback or a workaround as to how I can get Red Hat 8.0 installed on this machine?

Thanks.

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You don't really tell us enough to get a good answer. Assuming you are using floppies to install, and you get the error messages when you are prompted by the installer to switch disks to a drivers disk (or a set of them), then the obvious possibilities are:

1. The disk is bad. Try making another disk, and be sure to use a floppy that has no bad sectors.

2. The floppy drive is bad (either the one in this machine or the one in the machine you are making the disks on). Try a different drive.

3. The procedure is bad. Since you don't say how you are making the disk (not even what OS the system making the disk runs), I can't really offer anything specific here, just a suggestion that you review your procedure against the instructions.

4. The install is bad. That is, you are changing disks at the wrong time, or not putting the disk in far enough, or something of that sort. Again, review your procedure.

All of this assumes that you are installing from floppies. If you are not ... well, that itself indicaes how vague your description is.

If you post a followup, be sure to include a description of what you are doing when the errors occur, including the installer prompts that precede them.

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1. I think the driver disk is good. I took the disk and mounted on another linux box I have and I was able to read the contents and the file in vi.

2. This might be a possibility, but I am not too sure if it is likely. I am able to boot the installation program with the boot disk that I had created. Since I am able to boot the RedHat installation program I think that the floppy drive is working correctly.

3. I created the driver disk using rawrite on a Windows XP machine. This is the same procedure that I used to create the boot disk.

This is all from floppy disks. I am merely following the prompts that are occuring from the RedHat Installation program. When it tells me to put the driver disk in, I put it in.

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You don't really tell us enough to get a good answer. Assuming you are using floppies to install, and you get the error messages when you are prompted by the installer to switch disks to a drivers disk (or a set of

them), then the obvious possibilities are:

1. The disk is bad. Try making another disk, and be sure to use a floppy

that has no bad sectors.

2. The floppy drive is bad (either the one in this machine or the one in

the machine you are making the disks on). Try a different drive.

3. The procedure is bad. Since you don't say how you are making the disk

(not even what OS the system making the disk runs), I can't really offer

anything specific here, just a suggestion that you review your procedure

against the instructions.

4. The install is bad. That is, you are changing disks at the wrong time,
or not putting the disk in far enough, or something of that sort. Again,

review your procedure.

All of this assumes that you are installing from floppies. If you are not
... well, that itself indicaes how vague your description is.

If you post a followup, be sure to include a description of what you are

doing when the errors occur, including the installer prompts that precede them.

-- -------------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"--------
Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
Palo Alto, California, USA [email protected]
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Sorry my advice was so useless. Perhaps someone here who had done a similar install (I haven't; my advice was based on less specific experience with installers) will recognize in what you wrote a specific problem he or she can help you with. Good luck.

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