Installing Linux

On my server i have windows server 2000 already installed and want to change to linux red hat 9 but the problem is, once i boot the first installation disc up and click enter for graphical mode it goes to this dos screen and says <0> kernel panic : attempted to kill init!

What can i do to fix this i could really use the help
Thx guys

I'm a windows guy, but from googling, I think I can help you...atleast give you a reference to help.


Looks like you need to set the option "acpi=off"

Here's where I pulled it from, the context will probably help you catch the gist of it. Reference

how do i turn it off?

May be your installation disk is faulty.
Have u check on other pc?

have you tried to install in text mode? you can do this by simply typing text when booting from your cd

i dislike redhat so my advice is use suse or drake

if you dont like that suggestion than im sorry that i cant help you more but pclover took thought or in my case damaged.

why use RH9? it's old, out dated, and Red Hat doesn't even support it anymore. i'd say go for fedora.
download : http://fedora.redhat.com/download
buy : http://www.osdisc.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi/ ... nux/fedora