redhat 80

[Joseph.Minja at britishcouncil.or.tz]

trying to install redhat 8 as a newbie

first machine compaq deskpro 2000 with 10GBHDD running win98

, booted from floppy i created and when doing package checks it bombed aout
saying abnormal termination
booted again and went in as far as installing packages only to get 'not
enough space on' on / after tweaking abit i got /usr not having enough space
then tewaked further and started installing packages and somewhere a file
could not be opened and an abend happened and i gave up

second machine, dell GX110 9GBHDD virgin state
booted, and asked for auto partition but tweaked / and /usr partions to 2000
and 3000MB respectively. there after

"traceback (most recent call last)or is it list)
file */usr/lib/anaconda/gui.oy line 786, in handleRenderCallback
self.currentWindow.renderCallback()
file */usr/lib/anaconda/rw/progress._gui.py line 149, in RenderCallback
self.intf.icw.nextClicked()
file */usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py line 632, in nextClicked
self.dispatch.gotoNext()
file */usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py line 150, in gotoNext
self.moveStep()
file */usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py line 430, in TurnOnFileSystem
partition.doMetaDeletes(disksets)
file */usr/lib/anaconda/partitions.py line 1110, in doMetaDeletes
lvm.vgactivate()
file */usr/lib/anaconda/lvm.py line 54, in vgactivate
searchpath=1)
file */usr/lib/anaconda/iutil.py line 66, in execWithRedirect
xhildpid=os.fork()
OSerror: ( Errno 12) cannot allocate memory"

and it froze there while giving me the option to save what i have just typed
between the "" but couldnt

please advise

on another related incident i tried burning the source CDs on to my new
CDRWs but the first one bombs out with an error but i can stil see the files
copied but the CD does not work at all

please advise on this too

does anypone have any source CDs. Downloading from the web takes ages and
oftentimes bombs out even before reaching 1`00Mb and five files with 650MB
each will take me ages

Advise too please




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