Windows expatriate seeks shelter, will work for food (install issues)
Hello everyone. As the subject suggests, I am ditching Windows for Linux. I am a first time Linux user and this is the first install I've tried alone. But before I get to my problem, I'd like to post my system specs, just in case they matter:
Gateway 700GR
Board: Intel Corporation D915GSE AAC77848-102
Bus Clock: 800 megahertz
Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 (build 2600)***
3.40 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4 c: (on drive 0)
242.50 GB 90.55 GB free
_NEC DVD_RW ND-2510A [CD-ROM drive]
SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-148A
RADEON X300 Series [Display adapter] RADEON X300 Series
Secondary [Display adapter] COMPAQ 7550 [Monitor] (17.7"vis, August 2003)
1022 Megabytes Installed Memory (RAM)
Marvell Yukon 88E8050 PCI-E ASF Gigabit Ethernet Controller**
I am only using El Diablo Winblows as a basis from which to install, so please don't judge me too harshly for that. I currently have a separate partition(s) setup for Linux in coordination with the red hat suggestion for a dual booting system (keeping Windows for awhile as a net to catch me after I blow up Linux somehow).
The problem comes when I use this CD and attempt to install. I press enter, then the system locks up shortly after. It always freezes at the same spot, with the final line before the big kaboosh being:
"ide0 at 0x1F0-0x1F7, 0x3g6 on irq14"
Before this occurs, it detects my hard drive, both disk drives (CD and DVD, don't have floppy drive) and a few other interrupt quests like 10 and 11. I'm unsure why it is freezing, but my initial guess is that it has something to do with the fact my computer is using PCI-E based hardware or perhaps the message at the top that says the installer is assuming a 33mHz bus speed (whereas my box has a bus speed of 800mHZ).
So what went wrong and how does a poor uneducated Linux n00b such as myself fix this travesty?
The partitions I created for Linux's later usage were all after the Windows partition, which might be a separate issue later on and is actually the basis for my second question: Can I put them after the Windows partition and still have it install(perhaps this has caused/linked to the problem of the freezing)? Can I even keep the Windows partition before I install Linux?
Thanks all for your time and may god have mercy upon my soul for having used and purchased Windows 3.1,95,98,ME and XP in the first place.
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