graham1949 staggered into the Black Sun and said:
> I am new to Linux and trying to install Red Hat Linux 3 & Fedora as
> from the bible by Christopher Negus. The [installation software] does
> not find my hard drive and [requests] a driver.

RHEL 3 is kind of old, since the current release is 5. The rule of
thumb here is to make sure the distro you're trying to install is the
same age or newer than the motherboard you're using.

> Dell 8400, Hard drive partioned to accomodate Linux.

What's the SATA chipset on this thing? Get the latest distro (CentOS
5.1 or so) and try that. Since you're a n00b, I would not recommend
using Fedora, since that goes out of date too quickly and tends to have
more bugs than the stable RHEL/CentOS versions.

If all else fails, find the nearest local Linux User Group, and take the
box to one of their periodic Installfests. Or find your local LUG's
mailing list, and post there asking for help. It's highly probable that
if you offer someone on that list beer and pizza, they'll gladly help
you install whatever distro you want at a time that's convenient for
you. HTH,

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