Red Hat installation prob

[kantplayalik]

First let me say that I know JACK about linux. I'm a software programmer with no linux experience so I decided that I had better get with it and learn a li'l something. Anyway, I bought a "Red Hat Linux 8.0 for DUMMIES " book and I can't even get it installed. I'm trying to install it on a dell inspiron 5150 laptop w/ P4 2.8ghz and 512 mb RAM. I decide to go w/ a dual boot, so I partitioned my hard drive and all went well. When I lbooted from the installation cd, I get the RED HAT installation screen w/ these options:
- install with x window GUI
- install with text

I've tried bot and the install keeps freezing in the same spot:
after....
"calibrating APIC timer....
"......CPU Clock Speed is 2790.7722 Mhz.
"...... host bus clock speed is 0.00000 Mhz.
"cpu: 0, clocks: 0,slice: 0"
_"
Thats it, nothing else it just stops. Can someone please help me, I'm completely lost, I don't even know anyone who is vaguely farmiliar with Linux. Any and all help is GREATLY appreciated. Thanks in Advance.

[trickster]

Hi,

I think it might be some bug with Red Hat 8 (Red Hat 8 is quite old by now...)

You might want to give Red Hat 9 a try ( you can get it from free from redhat.com) or to the newer Red Hat flavor of Fedora Core ( http://fedora.redhat.com ) .

Here is a link of someone installing Red Hat 9 on that same laptop you have:

http://dbaron.org/linux/inspiron-5150

If you can't download a newer version, perhaps you can post on the flea market area. We have many users who are always willing to burn you a copy for free.

HTH

[trickster]

Also, google has many entries of people using Red Hat 9 and up with that laptop:

Inspiron 5150 Red Hat