Hi I'm another newbie to linux. I've successfully installed redhat 9 (I think) on my compaq presario 800 (700mhz, 256mb ram, 20gb, external usb cdrom and floppy drive). However, my problem is after I finish the installation process and it's time to reboot, the boot process stalls after the line "Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M." Here's what I see on my screen when it boots up for the first time...

POSIX conformance testing by UNIFX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xeb180, last bus=0
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/7198] at 00:07.0
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 00:0b.0
PCI: BIOS reporting unknown device 00:01
PCI: BIOS reporting unknown device 00:02
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16)
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
pty: 2048 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS1 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M

After that it just completely stalls and nothing happens. I've tried to do a reinstallation three times and each time it does the same thing. If anyone could give me some advice or point me in the right direction I would be very grateful.