Hi friends...
I need your help.I am having problem installing RHEL 4 on my machine.The reason for problem is due to my DVD player of my computer.I have successfully installed RHEL 4 on my computer when I was having CD player on my computer.Last month I changed to DVD and when I tried to re-install linux, after selecting language,keyboard & i chose CDROM for installation media,in next screen it said unable to find device needed for installation and it asked me to choose driver from list of driver.
Please guide me how i can install linux on my system.How I can fix this problem that is due to my DVD combo.I would really appreciate your help.
Thanks

You haven't given us a huge amount of information about your DVD drive, but I'm going to guess that it's newer than RHEL4 (RHEL4.6 was released on 2007/11/15 according to DistroWatch, so it's not exactly a new distribution).

You could try a more recent version of RHEL (5.1 is the current version), or CentOS (free-as-in-money and based on RHEL, just without the trademarks or support from Red Hat).

If you have the disk space, then you could copy the CDs/DVDs to your hard disk and install from there. Instructions may vary slightly depending on your architecture, but for 64-bit systems see http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/e...nstall-hd.html

Alternatively, if you have another machine that can run a web, NFS or FTP server, then you could perform a networked install (http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/e...-installs.html)

For 32-bit systems, the instructions should be in similar places on the redhat site (I doubt that there'll be any significant differences).

Hope that helps,

—Robert J Lee

Thanks for replying
I have samsung DVD drive.Please tell em what other info you need?
I have tried installation form hard disk method but that didnt work.
My other os is window xp home edition and i kept image file on fat32 formatted partition.For testing this method i copied image of first cd only on my partition.It said unable to load driver image.
Please guide me is there any other method or where i can find driver for my dvd drive.
Thanks

and model type of samsung writer is SH-S203D

It appears that the DVD drive is a sata drive. Since sata support in RHEL4.x was iffy, I would switch to RHEL5.2, which has excellent sata support. If you cannot afford RHEL5.2, you might want to consider Centos 5.2. Centos is RHEL with the logos removed. It is free to download/update(unlike RHEL) and has a five year support life.